Having debt is important in times of crises, but if investors think it’s too risky to lend money to a country, interest rates ...

The Philippines' running sovereign debt balance widened to a new record high as of March 2025 amid the government’s ...

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 roundtable said on Wednesday, as they ...

The debt to GDP ratio in Q4 2010 was 91.612% ... to the problems increasing debt poses to the country. They should think about the national welfare, rather than narrowly focus on their own ...

Most economists agree that the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product (GDP) is a more important gauge of our national debt. Unfortunately, this ratio has increased rapidly over the last ...

More borrowings, slower economic growth MANILA, Philippines —  The share of national debt to the country’s output jumped to ...

The Treasury said the country is on track to reduce the ... improves further in an effort to bring down the national government debt-to-GDP ratio to below the international threshold, alongside ...

The United States' national debt stands at approximately $36.22 trillion, exceeding 120% of its GDP. Japan's debt-to ... especially to developing countries. The IMF's lending capacity stands ...

The series of recent tariff announcements by the United States, and countermeasures by other countries ... debt levels above 95 percent of gross domestic product. This upward trend is likely to ...

Reducing the percentage of a country’s GDP consumed by government debt is important. If the national debt equals 30 per cent of GDP versus 40 per cent, the government will have to borrow less to ...