Concessional debt will be rescheduled over 30 years, with 12 years apos grace on principal repayments.

Members of the Committee had divergent views about the debt burden adjustment, which reflects notional repayments of principal of external debt.

Some members felt that the adjustment should rather be based on actual repayments of debt principal, the so called debt flow approach.

a Net transfers are defined as loan disbursements less principal repayments prepayments and interest charges received.

Most Banking Systems are based on debt, forcing people into a spiral of loans and repayments

The good news is that household debt is coming down through a combination of repayments and write offs.

IMF requested that the Government desist from repaying any debt until the entire quantum of debt is determined and rescheduled and the repayments are prioritized.

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Principal and interest on outstanding debt have been left intact.

country number amount Repayments 1993 1991

At the same time the Government was attempting to restructure the debt by deferring repayments until the country apos s economic situation had settled down.

So the market does not seem to care that countries have different potentials to generate exports to fund the financial flows needed for debt repayments, or different current and projected debt to GDP ratios.

ODA debt is rescheduled over 30 years, with no principal due for 12 years.

During the 1980s in particular, growing quantities of debt interest and principal constituted major outflows.

Repayments were made as soon as funds became available.

The loans and repayments are shown in table I.7.

When it does, it must write down the principal value of that debt by at least 50 .

Debt forgiveness should be a minimum of 50 per cent of existing debt, the original principal of which, as I pointed out earlier, has long been repaid.

Private investors are acknowledging the reality that repayments will likely be drawn out, because insisting on existing terms could cause an untenable bunching of debt service payments, with possibly unpleasant consequences.

Donors would provide additional contributions to IDA and AfDF, based on agreed burden shares, to offset dollar for dollar the foregone principal and interest repayments of the debt cancelled. This in essence could be interpreted to mean that those eligible countries will no longer have to pay their debt owed to IDA and AfDF, but they will have less access to future lending or assistance by the same amount.

Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.

Details of those loans and repayments are shown in table I.6.

Repayments followed from other large debtors, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Serbia, and Turkey.

Repayments would be due only if funds were actually disbursed to the Organization.

97 percent of all the scheduled repayments came back to us on time.

As many developing countries struggle to achieve economic growth within the new globalized economy, many of the resources that would normally be invested in youth development programmes are being diverted to service debt repayments.

Debt not only caused an outflow of capital to pay the principal and interest on external debt, but also hindered efforts to attract foreign direct investment and promote economic activity, a fact not reflected in the debt flow approach.

The various measures taken by the international community thus far, although welcome, had not provided adequate responses to the key issues of reducing debt service repayments, promoting economic recovery and meeting long term development needs.

Extending this idea to sovereign debt, government bond covenants could stipulate that if a sovereign s debt GDP ratio exceeds a specified threshold, principal and interest payments to bondholders would be automatically reduced.

Developing countries' loan repayments to multilateral financial and development institutions have outpaced loan disbursement.

Creditors could be offered these par bonds, or a shorter term bond with a higher coupon but with debt principal marked down.

Greece s default on its national debt need not mean an explicit refusal to make principal and interest payments when they come due.

More likely would be an IMF organized restructuring of the existing debt, swapping new bonds with lower principal and interest for existing bonds.

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During 2004, repayments of 148,278 were received net of agency collection fees and charges of 13,196.

During 2004, repayments of 148,278 were received net of Agencies collection fees and charges of 13,196.

This solution limits the risk of contagion and the potential losses that financial institutions would bear if the value of debt principal were reduced.

Africa apos s low commodity prices and crushing external debt burden are the principal factors responsible for the continent apos s poor economic performance.

They could buy bad loans from lenders and forgive part of the principal payable by borrowers, simultaneously reducing lenders collateral requirements and borrowers debt overhang.

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