More: Global debt
The Global Debt Crisis and the Case for Structural Reform – Interview
In a world where 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest than on health and education combined, the global...
Rethinking public debt as positive investment in sustainable development
The unprecedented fiscal firepower used to protect the vulnerable from the harsh socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic contraction have...
Two threats – for the world of people and for the world of finance
The world is today confronted with two nuclear threats of a proportion never previously seen in history. These threats are facing us at a...
Amid Record Sovereign Debt, Massive Gaps in Debt-Tracking Systems
At a time when sovereign debt in the poorest countries has surged to dangerously high levels, global and country-by-country systems for tracking it are...
Covid third world debt will outlast the virus – it should be relieved
In a year - or two or three - we will have mostly forgotten the pandemic. But the unprecedented third world debt the virus...
Global Wave of Debt Is Largest, Fastest in 50 Years
Debt in emerging and developing economies (EMDEs)
climbed to a record US$55 trillion in 2018, marking an eight-year surge that
has been the largest, fastest, and...