Public debt paradox
kathmandupost.com · Thu Feb 02 00:15:00 GMT 2023
Nepal needs to be careful while borrowing large commercial foreign loans with high interest rates.
The modern globalised ecosystem has increased public debt due to changing economic and political circumstances. Handling public debt goes hand in hand with an effort to balance those circumstances. Public debt is a domestic or foreign loan issued by a government, which remains a viable option to support government spending, and development initiatives, for which the government lacks funding. Owing to economic complexity and the Covid-19 pandemic, government spending has recently increased more quickly than its capacity to generate revenue. With interest rates skyrocketing, the rising debt severely
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