Government debt has risen substantially in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) since the global financial … debt levels. Considering currently subdued investment, additional government borrowing might also appear to be an … suggests caution. Despite low interest rates, debt was on a rising trajectory in half of EMDEs in 2018. In addition, the cost …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …. As a result, households' net worth has increased, and both poverty and the debt-asset ratio have declined …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to …

expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily … increased after the crisis, especially in emerging economies. Between 2008 and 2018, corporate debt increased from 56 to 96 …. Nonfinancial corporate debt was mainly issued through bond markets, and its growth can be largely attributed to accommodative …

Debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries have increased substantially in recent years. Since 2013, median … government debt has risen by about 20 percentage points of gross domestic product and increasingly comes from non … financial conditions given high levels of external debt, lack of fiscal space, low foreign currency reserves, and undiversified …

Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past … fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of … debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and developing economies since 1970; a series of econometric models …

Episodes of debt accumulation have been a recurrent feature of the global economy over the past fifty years. Since 2010 …, emerging and developing economies have experienced another wave of historically large and rapid debt accumulation. Similar past … debt buildups have often ended in widespread financial crises in these economies. This paper examines the factors that are …

and represents USD 22.1 trillion in total assets and USD 6.05 trillion in total debt. The findings show that, prior to the … pandemic, almost 60 percent of the debt was associated with firms that already exhibited vulnerabilities according to at least … corporate sectors also display weaknesses in insolvency frameworks, which may impede restructurings and write-downs and …