If Obernolte can stop himself from supporting additional hikes on the national debt, he could emerge as a serious critic of Washington’s tax-and-spend tendencies.

Why is sustainable debt important? Sustainable debt is a type of borrowing, via loans and bonds, that is used for environmental or social outcomes. The sustainable debt market is $6.0 trillion in ...

State variations in growth and debt, one-size-fits-all approach of the Finance Commission may not be suitable to assess debt sustainability ...

The ministry cautioned that the large proportion of floating-rate loans has kept the country exposed to interest rate ...

One of the more amusing exercises on the economic calendar is the International Monetary Fund’s annual review of the United States. Yet while everyone knows that the U.S. government pays absolutely no ...

In our last instalment, we sought to understand what Public Debt is. We noted that public debt is now an integral part of public finance management; that there is productive (or bad) debt, and ...

Public sector issuers in seven African countries are working with the World Bank to prepare sustainability-linked bonds or ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation No large European countries and only few small ones have met the so-called Bohn rule during the past 40 years or so. The ...

Regional sustainable finance markets outlooks show contrasts this year. Strong momentum is observed in Asia Pacific (APAC) and Eastern Europe, while policy swings and uncertainty have led to ...

Mid- to senior-level officials from Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, Debt Management Units, and other interested Government Institutions with responsibility for public debt-related matters.