Three states have set up funds to lower debt repayments in exchange for spending reforms.
Bankers in Karachi reckon that Pakistan may suspend foreign-debt repayments within a couple of months.
Companies must scramble to find dollars to make debt repayments as they fall due.
That said, in general, what donors take in debt repayments, they give back several times over in aid.
Some generators have switched off plant while others have defaulted on debt repayments and one has gone bust.
But now borrowers are saddled with higher debt repayments and are vulnerable to relatively small increases in interest rates.
It is set up by an insolvency practitioner, who takes a share of the debt repayments by way of payment.
BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Inside Money | In the red and ripped off?
With effect from April 21st, banks must continue to extend credit even to companies that have defaulted on debt repayments.
Mr Stournaras hopes they are deep enough to achieve a primary budget surplus (before making debt repayments) of 1.4% of GDP.
With the calculation of the impact of rising interest rates on debt repayments we have assumed that only the mortgage element rises.
This is because low inflation flattens the time profile of real debt repayments, making a mortgage more affordable in its early years.
ECONOMIST: The deadly cocktail of high borrowing and falling prices
Greece faced daunting debt repayments in spring 2010, and it wasn't at all clear if it would have the money to make them.
The draft text proposes a limit on structural deficits of 0.5% of GDP, compared with the present limit of 3% including debt repayments.
If interest on the debt issued by Italy and Spain becomes too high then their debt repayments could become unsustainable, triggering an economic crisis.
If the state budget is no longer being squeezed by debt repayments, plenty of grasping fingers are willing and able to take the spare cash.
Other public bodies, such as hospitals, have complained that large debt repayments, over long periods of time, make it difficult for them to balance their books.
On Greece's debt repayments, "I could imagine that we do something about the time frame, " German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on German television channel ZDF.
The primary deficit (or surplus) is what the public accounts look like after you take off all of the interest and debt repayments the government has to make.
Africa is the world's most indebted and aid-dependent region, with 17% of GDP flowing out in debt repayments, three times what the Bank believes is a sustainable level.
Russia's money supply increased by about 15% in the last two months of 1999, partly to finance a pre-election splurge and partly to buy dollars for foreign debt repayments.
However, commentators said the promises on education were vague, with the most specific proposal being for multinational lending bodies to allow poor countries to replace some debt repayments with spending on education.
"All consumers are painfully aware of the huge hikes in petrol and utility bills but we've also seen some fairly hefty price increases in pension contributions and debt repayments, " Mr Gordon said.
He said the top three factors to improving front-line services while delivering savings are to strip out duplicated layers of management, reduce debt repayments to the banks and drive down accommodation costs and overhead.
This week the general suspended all foreign-debt repayments.
By deferring the debt repayments, it also means the the government's deficit - its annual borrowing requirement - will be 2bn euros per year less than it would have been over the coming 10 years.
Syriza and the DemLeft do not even want to leave the euro: Syriza's proposal is for Greece to declare a selective moratorium on debt repayments and use the euro bailout money for a programme of social reform.
Few people are going to be overly impressed by debt reductions accomplished by issuing other forms of capital to replace them (and in this case, raising more new capital than the amount of the senior debt repayments).
For although violent currency movements would be damaging, because they disrupt companies' investment plans and debt repayments as well as producing sudden shifts in the terms of trade, steadier movements are generally a consequence of something going on in the real economy.
It missed shipments and repayments of debt taken out at 18% interest to pay for the move to Rana Plaza, according to interviews with bankers and members of the local garment-manufacturing association who know Mr. Adnan.
WSJ: Bangladesh Collapse: The Global Garment Trail: From Bangladesh to a Mall Near You
Permitting this arrangement to continue, in effect, subordinates Western taxpayers to private commercial banks when it comes to repayments on outstanding debt.
应用推荐