NIGERIA FOREIGN DEBT AND THEIR CHALLENGES IN ECONOMY RECOVERY

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Foreign debt, otherwise known as external debt, is the part of total debt held by creditors of foreign countries, i.e. non-residents of the debtor's country.


According to BUSINESS DICTIONARY, Foreign Debt is an amount a country owes to other countries either directly as a result of government –to-government loans or indirectly because of negative balance of trade


Foreign debt is placed within four broad categories:


  • Private non-guaranteed debt
  • Public and publicly guaranteed debt
  • Central bank deposits
  • Loans due to the World Bank and IMF


A generally applied benchmark for an acceptable level of external debt is that the net present value (NPV) of a country's external public debt should be less than 150% of its exports or 250% of its revenues.


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