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Achieving this requires convincing still-skeptical creditors that women are dependable – and, indeed, valuable – clients, including by citing data on microcredit, which prove that women repay loans as reliably as men, if not more so.
I remember the saddened look on the face of a US election observer in Iraq, a state legislator from Texas, when, after asking an Iraqi official whether Iraq planned to repay the US for “introducing democracy” to his country, the official (at first not quite understanding the question) shook his head ruefully.
And, if a person became indebted, it was a point of honor to repay the obligation when it fell due, by selling assets, reducing consumption, working harder, or some combination of the three.
Indeed, it was often more than a point of honor: failure to repay debt on time landed the debtor in prison.
The second question is how serious a problem it is not to repay one’s debts.
Unable to repay their loans, they kill themselves.
Moreover, since farmers who do have access to formal credit will have less incentive to repay their loans, banks will become more reluctant to lend to any farmers at all.
If they do not return, they must repay the scholarship as if it were a loan.
Neither government will ever repay all they owe.
If talented young Greeks must fund perpetual surpluses to repay past debts, they can literally walk away from Greece’s debts by moving elsewhere in the European Union (taking tax revenues with them).
During the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, some countries suffered foreign-exchange crises, in which devaluation and high real interest rates de-capitalized banks and enterprises, owing to the lack of sufficient reserves to repay foreign-exchange debts.
We know that the structure of the eurozone encourages divergence, not convergence: as capital and talented people leave crisis-hit economies, these countries become less able to repay their debts.
A bank that suddenly has to repay its interbank debt must cut credit to its own customers or sell off other assets, leading to large losses.
They are entitled to grants, and should not be obliged to repay the monies they receive.
Instead, the EU and its member states must find new sources of tax revenue to repay the surge funding.
Our financial markets performed dismally – well-performing, “rational” markets do not lend to people who cannot or will not repay – and yet those running these markets were rewarded as if they were financial geniuses.
Securitization – putting large numbers of mortgages together to be sold to pension funds and investors around the world – worked only because there were rating agencies that were trusted to ensure that mortgage loans were given to people who would repay them.
And, if the Greek and Italian economies face difficult recoveries inside the eurozone, consider how hard it would be to repay euro-denominated debts with devalued drachmas or liras.
Foreign entities -- banks and other financial institutions -- that had made dollar loans to Mexico that Mexico could not repay were bailed out.
This need not mean outright default; a plan to repay principal and interest with low-interest securities rather than cash – or to withhold income tax on interest earned from government bonds, crediting those taxes against the obligations of American taxpayers – would achieve the same result.
This money will now be used in part to repay foreign investors that are taking their money from Russia.
In some countries, overt corruption occurs primarily through campaign contributions that oblige politicians to repay major donors with favors.
If a country is bankrupt, it must let its creditors know that it cannot repay its debts.
Because the IMF lends money on a short-term basis, there was an incentive to ignore the effects of austerity in order to arrive at growth projections that imply an ability to repay.
Poland’s economy, close to outright collapse, struggled to meet citizens’ basic needs, let alone repay foreign loans.
A household that owes more money than it can easily repay needs to cut back on spending.
But when a government does that, output and incomes decline, unemployment increases, and the ability to repay may actually decrease.
That way, the debtor countries can reassure their creditors and repay their loans with self-printed cash if necessary, as Southern European countries have done for the last decade.
Alternatively, the banks could perpetually roll over existing debt, forever extending new loans to repay old debts.
Alternatively, it may intervene and sell international reserves, reducing the stock available to repay dollar debt.
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