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At the same time, real-estate developers who have borrowed heavily from shadow-banking institutions, based on the assumption that property prices would continue to rise steadily, may struggle to repay their debts, with a sharp decline in prices inevitably leading to defaults.
Having reached the point at which taxes can scarcely be increased further, these governments cannot both repay their debts and keep welfare spending at current levels.
Countries on the periphery tend to be poorer and more dependent on commodities than the more developed world, and they must repay more than $1.4 trillion in bank loans in 2009 alone.
It should repay the favor.
If the bank failed, it would be unable to repay the bonds, and the managers owning bonds would be that much poorer.
That knowledge should have given lenders incentives to make loans only to those who could repay.
But, whatever his motives, the anxiety that led up to Argentina's last minute deal with the IMF to repay $3.1 billion owed the global lender may serve to help to rescue what capitalism is really about: the appropriate judgment of risk.
Argentina's other threat, not to repay the IMF, challenged the old system just as profoundly and seemed for some to be a justified response to years of bad policy advice from the IMF and the G-7 countries.
For example, Ireland was able to repay the €12.5 billion it owed to the IMF early, once it was able to refinance itself more cheaply in the markets, helping it to reduce its interest-rate bill further.
Eight years of 7% average annual GDP growth during Putin’s previous presidency (2000-2008) allowed Russia to repay its debts, accumulate almost $600 billion in foreign-currency reserves, and join the leading emerging economies.
The adverse short-term growth effects of a spending cut are likely to be largest when the economy is already in a recession, trade partners are also cutting spending or raising taxes, the central bank’s interest rate is already near zero, and markets have no particular worries about the state’s ability to repay its debt.
With operating cash flows inadequate to repay much of China’s debt, borrowers have little choice but to finance payments with new credit.
Those apparently low-risk claims cannot really be worth 270% of Chinese GDP if a significant proportion are matched by loans to borrowers who cannot repay.
Hamas is in no position to repay Israel’s air and ground attacks in kind, whereas an Indian attack on Pakistani territory, even one targeting terrorist bases and training camps, would invite swift retaliation from the Pakistani army.
Fisher's criticism, however, was even more devastating--and more relevant to Japan's current circumstances: as prices fall, debtors, whose obligations are fixed in nominal terms (that is, in terms of yen) find it increasingly difficult to repay what they owe.
More debtors would be able to repay their loans, which might lead the banks to lend more.
And when it does, the country will be in a better position to repay its massive hospital bill.
Despite all the pain Greece has suffered – a 30% drop in aggregate demand since the last cyclical peak and a rise in unemployment to more than 25% of the workforce – the Greek economy is still nowhere near competitive enough to repay its debts.
In return, its creditors would agree to another one-time debt write-off – large enough to enable Greece realistically to repay its debts in the future, but small enough to avoid unnecessary transfers of credit.
In this scenario, countries interested in borrowing large amounts from abroad would need to develop institutions that made the promise to repay credible.
But seniority is not written in stone: poor economies that are unable to repay even the IMF are eligible for debt reduction under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, and 35 have received it since the program was established in 1996.
But if a court rules that a country always must repay the debt, there is no default risk to be compensated.
The conclusion that Greece needed official loans to repay its private creditors ensured that Greek debt remained large, compelling eurozone leaders to demand economically debilitating fiscal austerity.
Last year, it became clear that Greece could not repay its official creditors on the agreed terms.
The Ukrainian Government is broke, and will most likely have to default, or to reschedule its foreign debts, or to borrow new funds to repay the old, in 2000.
But it should also be obvious that Japan will never be able to generate a primary fiscal surplus large enough to repay its government debt in the normal sense of the word “repay.”
Perhaps worse, some also spent more than they could easily repay, given their economies’ declining long-term growth potential because of the aging of their populations.
True, much of this is mere debt-service relief, given that Ireland was able to repay its foreign liabilities with self-printed money, for which it pays only 1% interest.
Indeed, Argentina recently faced a particularly acute dilemma, following a United States court ruling requiring it to repay $1.3 billion to US hedge funds that rejected an earlier sovereign-debt rescheduling deal.
Between January 2003 (when his administration began) and June 2006 (latest available data), Lula’s administration assigned 530 billion reales (almost $242.7 billion) to repay the holders of government bonds, whereas he devoted 30 billion reales ($13.8 billion) to a program called “Bolsa-Familia” that distributes money directly to poor families.
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