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But Iraq has already degenerated into so many rival factions that apart from the abused prisoners, there is no identifiable entity America has wronged and to whom it is indebted.
As a consequence of the crash of 2008, several member countries became over indebted, and risk premia made the eurozone’s division into creditor and debtor countries permanent.
But unemployment continues to rise in the heavily indebted southern countries, and output continues to lag behind Germany and other northern European countries.
There is a vast difference between unit labor costs – real wages adjusted for productivity – in Germany and in the heavily indebted southern countries.
Production costs in other heavily indebted countries were 20-25% higher than in Germany.
Growth will not resume until production costs in the indebted countries decline, which requires either a substantial permanent increase in productivity, a reduction in real wages, or both.
After five years of slow growth and rising unemployment, voters in other indebted countries, like Italians (and French voters before them), are likely to reject additional spending reductions, tax increases, and further painful deregulation.
Let all the heavily indebted southern European countries jointly agree to join a weak euro, which would float against the stronger northern euro.
When the weak euro reduces the heavily indebted countries’ production costs by 20-25%, they can rejoin the “hard” euro if they accept fiscal reforms that are subject to approval by the European Commission (and thus by the hard-euro creditor countries).
Greece was heavily indebted when it joined the eurozone in 2001, with government debt at around 99% of GDP.
The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.
The World Social Forum, which met this year in Bombay, India, is another useful body that is generating alternative proposals to overcome the dire situation of the heavily indebted countries.
In return, the highly indebted countries must commit to multi-year programs to restructure fiscal institutions and enhance competitiveness – reforms that can be implemented and bear fruit only over the medium term.
For if the Fatherland/All Russia alliance gains control of the State Duma (the lower house of Parliament), the governors would assume even more weight, for not only would they control the Federation Council (the upper house) but the deputies in the lower house of the Duma would likely be men deeply indebted to their local governors for their seats.
But weakened by the financial crisis, deeply indebted to foreign countries, bogged down in Iraq, facing major challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and feeling psychologically humbled, the US may no longer be in the same unrivalled position to lead the international community, even under the inspiring leadership of Barack Obama.
It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances some contractors’ luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted, not more prosperous.
The Germans, responding to the understandable public backlash against taxpayer-financed bailouts for banks and indebted countries, are sensibly calling for mechanisms to permit “wider burden sharing” – meaning losses for creditors.
This “extend and pretend” or “lend and pray” approach is bound to fail, because, unfortunately, most of the options that indebted countries have used in the past to extricate themselves from excessive debt are not feasible.
Indebted Alawites even protested the Ba’ath Party’s leadership in 1969, only to be crushed by the military.
In the case of Reinhart and Rogoff, the observation that highly indebted countries grow more slowly, even if true, does not tell us anything about whether high debt causes slow growth or vice versa.
But won’t an increasingly indebted government have to pay ever-higher interest rates, so that debt-service costs eventually consume its entire revenue?
Talking up previous fiscal extravagance made a bond-market attack on heavily indebted governments seem more plausible (and more likely); the confidence fairy promised to reward fiscal frugality by making the economy more productive.
This causes GDPs to fall and debt ratios to rise, hurting the heavily indebted countries, which pay high risk premiums, more than countries with better credit ratings, because it renders the former countries’ debt unsustainable.
The heavily indebted countries must channel the rising their citizens’ discontent into a more constructive channel by coming together and calling on Germany to make the choice.
He has been a forthright spokesman for women’s rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.
The third lesson from Greece is that macro tinkering is not enough; highly indebted countries also need a credible growth strategy.
Indeed, to restore these economies to health, three distinct types of adjustment are needed: between the eurozone and the world, between the eurozone’s periphery and core, and between debt and income in the heavily indebted peripheral countries, particularly Greece.
Banks feel safe lending to SOEs, no matter how indebted, because the government implicitly guarantees the debt.
As markets underpriced risk in order to lend to increasingly indebted countries, pressure on interest rates diminished.
Similarly, after lending billions of dollars to heavily indebted Djibouti, China established its first overseas military base this year in that tiny but strategic state, just a few miles from a US naval base – the only permanent American military facility in Africa.
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