External debt, also known as foreign debt, refers to the total amount of money borrowed by a country from foreign lenders, ...

A recent economic discussion program on a major television channel hosted a panel that included two economists, a representative of the SME sector and three Members of Parliament, one of whom is a ...

Radical reform of the global finance system is urgently needed, and Ireland must play a role, says ActionAid Ireland CEO, ...

The debt bulletin and a separate announcement of the central bank showed that combined foreign loan receipts and rollovers ...

THE COUNTRY’S external debt service burden jumped by 14% as of end-November amid a rise in both principal and interest payments, preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

Many emerging markets and developing economies face elevated debt vulnerabilities and financing needs. Following the 2020-21 surge in debt levels associated with the COVID-19 shock, and the subsequent ...

Standard & Poor's (S&P) today downgraded the rating of Mozambique's domestic debt issues to CCC-, maintained the level of external debt issues, but worsened the outlook for both to negative. "The gove ...

The State Bank of Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves edged up $35 million during the week ending February 14, to stand at $11.20 billion, the central bank reported on Thursday, amid ...

Kenya’s Treasury has detailed the sources of its rising debt, revealing a KSh 300 billion increase driven by both domestic ...

The weighted average interest rate rose to 4.6 percent in the year to June 2024 from 3.2 percent a year earlier.

THE Philippines’s external debt service burden (DSB) rose to $15.735 billion as of the end of November 2024, exceeding 2023’s full-year DSB of $14.807 billion. The full-year DSB for 2023 had marked ...