Fitch said government debt increased to 77.8 percent of GDP in 2024 (from 72.8 percent in 2023), driven by the wide fiscal deficit, exchange rate depreciation as 80 percent of the debt stock is ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund must be more active in debt restructuring processes, the global lender's managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Tuesday ...

In the Big, Bad, Budget Abomination, for example, there are two huge errors. The obvious one: they increased the deficit.

The IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor projected that global public debt will grow 2.8 percentage points to 95.1% of global GDP in 2025. It said the upward trend was likely to continue, reaching 99.6% of ...

Public debt is projected to reach nearly 100 percent of global gross domestic product by the end of this decade, surpassing even pandemic-level highs. Governments, particularly those in emerging ...

IMF officials met with private creditors in London to discuss sovereign debt restructurings in emerging markets and gather input for a new report. The meeting covered topics such as state ...

The IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor projected that global public debt will grow 2.8 percentage points to 95.1% of global GDP in 2025. It said the upward trend was likely to continue, reaching 99.6% of ...

Global debt decreased about one percentage point to 237 percent GDP. The values for 2023 are now available from the just released IMF’s Global Debt Database. Global private debt fell by 2.8 percentage ...

When Germany borrows from the international loan market, it is charged a modest interest rate of 0.8 percent per annum. The same is 2.5 percent for the US. But if one comes to the ...

The IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor projected that global public debt will grow 2.8 percentage points to 95.1% of global GDP in 2025. It said the upward trend was likely to continue, reaching 99.6% of ...