Many countries burdened by high debt levels are struggling to invest in key areas like education, healthcare, and climate action. Debt-for-development swaps (debt swaps) offer a way to improve ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The current United States national debt is $35.8 trillion ...

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - More work is needed to improve the sovereign debt restructuring process and help countries facing mounting debt service challenges, the chairs of a global debt ...

Cesar Sosa-Padilla, associate professor of economics and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, at the University of Notre Dame.

Amid heightened uncertainty, policymakers will need to deal with complex trade-offs between debt, slower growth, and new spending pressures April 23, 2025 Major policy shifts underway have heightened ...

The gap between external debt repayments and new financing in developing countries widened to $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the largest in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank. Debt ...

WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...

The International Monetary Fund is often the last stop for countries in financial distress. When national reserves dry up or inflation spins out of control, the IMF steps in with loans meant to ...

There’s been a lot of talk in thefinancial newslately about the size of the U.S. debt and the fact that foreign countries hold a large amount of it. Some legislators and economists fear that the U.S.

In this article we are going to list the 25 countries with the highest debt to GDP ratios. The global fiscal landscape in 2026 is defined by a paradox: while the total volume of global debt has ...