Economic managers say
external debts are used to finance the projects in the country, which will in return increase the income of the people and correspondingly will increase the savings.
Further research is therefore necessary to provide a more definitive assessment of the relationship between growth of
external debts and some of the variables used in this study.
According to the CBE, the volume of government's
external debts reached $47.648bn at the end of June 2018, equivalent to 51.4% of the total
external debt, and about 19% of the GDP.
A document obtained from the Debt Management Office (DMO), on Wednesday in Abuja, titled: 'States, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Federal Governments'
External Debt Stock as at June 30, 2018,' also detailed other states'
external debts.
"We will develop securities market and reduce
external debts. Today 94% of the public debt is
external debt, and 6.9% - internal debt.
The growing
external debts of developing nations persist to deter their socio-economic developments.
The countries have to hinge on internal or
external debts to finance the sizeable defense expenditures.
This paper examines the comparative analysis of the average level of
external debts between Democratic and Military Regimes in Pakistan for the time period of 41 years spread over1972 to 2012.
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External Debts, Growth and Peace in the Sudan: Some Serious Challenges Facing the Country in the Post-Conflict Era.
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In the shaping of economic growth of any country, researchers revealed that
external debt plays both an optimistic as well as pessimistic role mainly in the developing countries.
THE latest data on
external debt that the State Bank released on Thursday paints a worrisome picture of the direction in which the economy is headed.