Innovative forms of debt relief, including debt for equity swaps, debt for social development swaps, and debt for environment swaps, could be widely utilized.

This includes debt bondage, whereby a person pledges his own services or those of another person over whom he has authority as security for a debt.

Debt for equity and debt for nature swaps should be more broadly implemented.

We are not asking for debt forgiveness or debt cancellation.

Innovative measures, including debt for equity swaps, debt swaps for the protection of the environment and debt for development swaps, should be considered.

They also advocated the adoption of such innovative measures as debt for equity swaps, debt for social development and debt for the environment.

And now the safety and security of US debt are at risk.

Options for lower debt burdens on Governments of heavily indebted developing countries include debt cancellation and debt swaps for sustainable development.

The demand for debt repayment confronts the philosophy of debt forgiveness.

Multilateral debt accounted for 97 per cent of the total debt.

No formal debt restructuring existed for debt owed to multilateral institutions.

The resolution, moreover, calls for the treatment of multilateral debt to alleviate debt and debt service burdens.

In addition, innovative measures such as debt for equity swaps, debt for social development swaps, debt for environment swaps, etc. should be considered and applied effectively.

Debt relief, debt swaps or debt cancellation could offer important means for mobilizing resources for accelerating progress towards the water and sanitation goals.

Debt servicing accounted for the bulk of Africa apos s debt burden.

For in our financial system money is debt, and debt is money.

The national debt has grown too large for the National Debt Clock.

Sovereign debt for sustained development

57. A new approach in official bilateral debt calls for bolder measures in two key areas, debt reduction and the institutional framework for debt relief.

But, he had to be in debt. He had to pay for his debt for 30 years.

quot 12. Urges the international community to consider wider application of innovative measures, such as debt for equity swaps, debt for nature swaps and debt for development swaps, without prejudice to more durable solutions such as debt cancellation

13. Urges the international community to consider wider application of innovative measures, such as debt for equity, debt for nature and debt for development swaps, without prejudice to more durable solutions such as debt reduction and or cancellation

quot 14. Urges the international community to consider wider application of innovative measures, such as debt for equity, debt for nature and debt for social development swaps, and, in addition, to consider also debt for investment swaps, without prejudice to more durable solutions such as debt reduction and or cancellation

On the debt burden, we applaud debt relief for the highly indebted poor countries.

But, while debt forgiveness benefits holders of both equity and debt, debt holders don t voluntarily agree to it for two reasons.

A New Deal for Debt Overhangs?

For farmers, this means deeper debt.

Need for broader external debt relief

(c) The need for debt reduction

Trust Fund for External Debt Crisis

Multilaterally coordinated debt swaps for development projects were another possible form of debt relief for the countries concerned.

Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.

Under the international debt strategy for addressing commercial bank debt, progress has been very substantial.

Urgent measures must be taken for the cancellation of debt, particularly bilateral and multilateral debt.

and for a substantial reduction of all types of debt, including multilateral debt, for all categories of developing countries.

12. The Ministers reiterated the need for more effective measures for reduction of the debt and debt servicing burden of the developing countries including cancellation of such debt.

Also stresses the need for the implementation of additional debt relief measures, including further reduction and cancellation of debt and debt service related to official debt, and for more urgent actions with regard to, inter alia, the remaining commercial debt owed by the developing countries

A similar pattern holds for public debt.

Calls for immediate debt restructuring went unheeded.

Innovative measures such as debt for nature swaps and debt for development swaps should be operationalized and their scope broadened.

The link between sovereign debt and bank debt has to be broken once and for all.

Radical measures are necessary for reducing in the debt and debt servicing burden of developing countries.

Debt relief measures for those countries had thus far been insufficient to reduce their debt overhang.

60. Debt relief measures should also be applied to multilateral debt, which currently accounted for much of the huge debt burden of many countries.

Debt sustainability and debt relief