A new UN-backed forum launched on Wednesday to help developing nations escape the weight of unsustainable debt – which has ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), gathered regional and ...

By Andrea Shalal and Karin Strohecker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. and Chinese officials joined a meeting on Wednesday of the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable, where a key topic was the lack of ...

LONDON/GENEVA - A new U.N.-supported forum designed to help tackle some of the most pressing debt issues across emerging ...

The world is mired in $315 trillion of debt, according to a report from the Institute of International Finance. This global debt wave has been the biggest, fastest and most wide-ranging rise in debt ...

Global debt hit a milestone recently. If you add up the debt of all of the countries on Earth, you end up with a stunning $91 trillion. More than a third of that comes from one country: the United ...

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your financial health.

Global public debt is very high. It is expected to exceed $100 trillion, or about 93 percent of global gross domestic product by the end of this year and will approach 100 percent of GDP by 2030. This ...

Economists Martín Guzmán and Joseph Stiglitz explain how state-level changes can assist the 3.3 billion people living in countries that spend more on debt service than healthcare. Joseph E. Stiglitz, ...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...

The International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday that the public debt situation worldwide could be more dire than most think, highlighting skyrocketing fiscal deficits in the U.S. and China. Global ...