Tag: Debt

Does government debt increase after global recessions? (M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara, Brookings)

Global government debt surged to nearly 100 percent of GDP during the global recession of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a collapse in...

Debt tsunami of the pandemic (M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara, Brookings)

Starting in 2010, a new wave of debt accumulation—the “fourth wave” of debt—had been underway in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs, Figure 1)....

Economic Management/Debt – Improving economic management brings many benefits – among them, measurably lower sovereign financing costs (Girum Abate, Michael Brown, Alex Sienaert, Mark...

Low- and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs) are increasingly tapping the international capital markets for debt financing. It makes sense for them to do...

(Pandemic/Debt) Emerging-market Debt in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chatham House)

David Lubin This paper, which is published under the Global Economy and Finance Programme’s ‘Rebuilding International Economic Cooperation’ project, offers two proposals to help prevent...

PANDEMIC/DEVELOPMENT/DEBT – World Bank urges ‘greener, smarter, more equitable’ recovery path (Al Jazeera)

The economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are giving countries an opportunity to pursue “greener, smarter, more equitable” development paths, but onerous debt...

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES/COVID19 – COVID-19’s legacy of debt and debt service in developing countries (Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19s-legacy-of-debt-and-debt-service-in-developing-countries/