Government debt remains at 102% of GDP in first half

Jerusalem Post;  August 21, 2003 ;     531 words ...00-00-0000 Headline: Government debt remains at 102% of GDP in first...Thursday, August 21, 2003 -- The government debt remained at 102 percent of...Wednesday. The nominal value of government debt actually rose by 1.5% in real...

government debt

A Dictionary of Economics;      108 words ...government debt Debt owed by the government at any level. It...level of government to another, such as central government debt held as financial reserves by local authorities. Government debt may be measured gross or net, when some firms...

Government debt down slightly in relation to GDP

Jerusalem Post;  March 9, 2005 ;     519 words ......Jerusalem Post 03-09-2005 Headline: Government debt down slightly in relation to GDP Byline...17 Wednesday, March 9, 2005 -- The government debt deceased slightly in relation to Israel...the Bank of Israel said Tuesday. The government debt rose 3.45% by the end of 2004 to total...

GUIDELINES FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT DEBT MANAGEMENT IN 2008

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 15, 2007 ;     353 words ......decided the guidelines for central government debt management for 2008-2010. For 2008...billion. The guidelines for central government debt management should be seen in the light...an expected decline in the central government debt of over SEK 500 billion from 2006...

NSW: Egan says general government debt less than zero

AAP General News (Australia);  December 14, 2004 ;     328 words ......14-2004 NSW: Egan says general government debt less than zero SYDNEY, Dec 14 AAP - General government debt had been eliminated in NSW, state...Christmas, would show actual general government debt was now less than zero, down from...

Philippine government debt up by January

Xinhua News Agency;  April 27, 2005 ;     184 words ...Philippine government debt up by January MANILA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government debt stood at 4.01 trillion pesos (74.25...made by the government, it said. Total government debt is composed of 15.5 percent short-term...

The conduct of monetary policy with a shrinking stock of government...

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......a decline in the amount of federal government debt outstanding (Kopcke et al. 2001, Appendix...States in recent years. U.S. federal government debt in the hands of the public, including...2001, Table 1-1) projects federal government debt in the hands of the public to shrink...

Government debt management in Europe: recent changes in debt managers'...

Public Finance and Management;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......countries the institutional position of the government debt managers has also changed. Although...organisation responsible for the management of government debt. All these changes have affected government debt management strategies in the euro area...the changes in the environment ...

7.7% GOVERNMENT DEBT RATIO BY YEAR END

Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  May 15, 2007 ;     39 words ...According to Al-Khaleej newspaper (May 14, 2007), a recently released report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates the UAE's government debt ratio out of the country's GDP to withdraw to 7.7% by the end of 2007, down from 8.1% in 2006.

The Economic Consequences of Disappearing Government Debt.(Statistical...

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......represent a general shrinkage of governments' claims on the world pool...the consequent declines in government debt, have important economic...body of opinion holds that government debt, because it implies a future...that view the decline in government debt, by itself, has no ...

Philippines government debt down 3.6 pct in 2007

Xinhua News Agency;  March 12, 2008 ;     213 words ...Philippines government debt down 3.6 pct in 2007 MANILA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' government debt fell to 3.712 trillion pesos (90...against the dollar also brought down government debt by 13 billion pesos ( 316 million...

Japan's government debt reaches record high in December

AP Worldstream;  March 25, 2004 ;     137 words ......the Ministry of Finance Thursday. The figure for central government debt, which totals government bonds and borrowings and other...struggled in a slowdown for more than a decade and racked up government debt as leaders relied on public projects spending to stimulate...

Government Debt and Economic Growth in an Overlapping Generations Model.

Southern Economic Journal;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......studies have shown that an increase in government debt raises the real interest rate and...this paper shows that an increase in government debt may not increase the real interest...growth and that an introduction of government debt will increase the growth rate of per...

A worldwide buying frenzy has driven down yields on long-term government...

The Economist (US);  November 10, 2001 ;     27 words ...A worldwide buying frenzy has driven down yields on long-term government debt ever since the American Treasury announced last month that it would stop issuing 30-year bonds.

Financial indicators. (statistics from various stock markets, interest...

The Economist (US);  February 17, 1996 ;     142 words ...GOVERNMENT DEBT The total value of new issues of (OECD) government debt is likely to reach $1.5 trillion in 1996, $100...and net new borrowing. Despite the efforts of governments around the world to cut budget deficits, bond...