Tag Archives: Debt

The value of outstanding student loans in the United States has now reached $1.7 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. That sum is owed by 45 million borrowers and it is the country’s second highest consumer debt category after mortgage debt. …

The debt-laden economy of Pakistan needs foreign inflows in order to address its economic woes. The global economic landscape seems better today vis-à-vis a year ago when the entire world was afflicted by the conundrums of the pandemic. Pakistan’s economic …

Collectively, financial sector’s risk indicators have significantly strengthened since the last financial crisis of 2008. In terms of capitalization, the industry boasts of a CAR of 18.7% , ADR of 46.3% and about 53% of the asset base is liquid …

Statistics show that during July-December of fiscal year 2020-21, Pakistan has received $5.7 billion in external loans from multiple financing sources. Total inflows were 46 percent of the annual budget estimate of $12.2 billion for the ongoing fiscal year. In …

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, it seemed like the day of reckoning for over-stretched corporate borrowers was finally at hand. For years, pundits and policymakers had been warning about a dangerous build-up of the debt of “non-financial firms”, meaning …

Presently Pakistan’s external debt and liabilities reached historical level of $113.8 billion at the end of September 2020, due to fresh borrowing from multilateral and bilateral sources on account of public debt. The economists reveal that economic growth and development …

Circular debt is one of the biggest challenges Pakistan’s energy sector is facing since 2008-09, which has just crossed the PKR 2.2 trillion mark. As a matter of fact, circular debt is quite a natural phenomenon in the energy sector, …

The Government of Pakistan has recently tabled an Amendment Bill to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Act (Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power Act 1997) to recover the stock of circular debt in the power …

The present government of Pakistan statistics showed that, took over $13 billion in foreign loans in the previous fiscal year — the second highest amount in history — to repay maturing external debt and cushion the shrinking foreign exchange reserves. …

This chart uses IMF estimates to show the countries most burdened by their national debt. Japan has by far the biggest problem, with general government gross debt at 238 percent of its GDP. In fourth place, the economic struggles of Lebanon add an extra …

When millions of Americans started losing their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic in March, the federal government introduced the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program (FPUC) as part of the CARES Act. The program, which provides jobless Americans who qualify …

The federal budget for 2020-21 is set in difficult circumstances with an exceptional degree of uncertainty generated by COVID-19. The economy was already reeling under the sharp slowdown brought on by the macroeconomic adjustment that began last July with accession …