Vol 6 No 2 Summer 2022

The Janus Face of Public Debt

Ramaa Vasudevan

Public debt, the debt incurred by sovereign states, has surged from 75 percent of global GDP in 2008 to surpass 100 percent of global GDP, as states responded to the consequences of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where public debt spiked to a fifty-year high in the […]

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Public debt, the debt incurred by sovereign states, has surged from 75 percent of global GDP in 2008 to surpass 100 percent of global GDP, as states responded to the consequences of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where public debt spiked to a fifty-year high in the […]

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Public debt, the debt incurred by sovereign states, has surged from 75 percent of global GDP in 2008 to surpass 100 percent of global GDP, as states responded to the consequences of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where public debt spiked to a fifty-year high in the […]

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Public debt, the debt incurred by sovereign states, has surged from 75 percent of global GDP in 2008 to surpass 100 percent of global GDP, as states responded to the consequences of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where public debt spiked to a fifty-year high in the […]