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Argues that when growth prospects are disrupted, both resource and financial adjustments are required. Describes how higher interest rates in the early 1980s raised debt-service burdens, contributed to capital flight, and turned heavily indebted countries into net remitters of capital. 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Without that surplus, sustained net capital outflow forces domestic policy changes that may be difficult.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What triggers the need for both resource and financial adjustments during the debt-servicing problem?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"When events disrupt a debtor country’s growth potential and leave debt obligations larger than its economic capacity, adjustments must occur in both resources and finance to meet obligations.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How did the early 1980s change the financial position of heavily indebted countries?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Their overall financial position shifted from net recipients of capital to net remitters. The shift was linked to sharply higher interest rates and worsening world economic prosperity, which increased net interest payments and weakened export 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are black with whitestripes.The truth,of course,is thatzebras are both white and black.  \nMany observers consider thedeveloping-country-debt situationfrom a similarly one-sided perspective.Some see it primarily as a finan-cial problem,focusing on the difficulties associated with obtaining andservicing foreign loans.Others seeitlargely as a problem of real economicadjustment,focusing on consump·tion,investment,and trade patterns inheavily indebted countries.  \nLike the zebra's stripes,however,these elements of the debt problemare both part of the same animal.Theability of heavily indebted countriesto service their international debtsdepends on their ability to generateand to sustain a commensurate tradesurplus.The extent to which thesecountries make the requisite policyadjustments will determine whetherfull and timely servicing of the debt isfeasible or whether additional restruc-turing is inevitable.  \n■ The Correspondence betweenFinancial Flows and Trade FlowsExternal financing is vital to the eco-nomic growth and prosperity ofdeveloping countries.Such countriesoften are rich in labor or in naturalresources,but lack sufficient capitalto develop their full potential.For-eign loans can supplement domesticsavings in developing countries andpermit the import of needed capitalgoods.  \nBoth borrower and lender benefitfrom this arrangement.The scarcity ofcapital and the potential for morerapid growth promise high returns onforeign capital,while faster growthenables debtors to service loans andincrease their standard of living.Theheavily indebted countries,the focusof this Economic Commentary,grewnearly twice as fast as the majorindustrial countries during the 1970s.This potential for rapid growthttracted foreign capital.  \nA debt-servicing problem arises whenevents disrupt developing countries'growth potential and leave them withdebt obligations that overwhelm theireconomic capacity to service them.Insuch circumstances,both resource andfinancial adjustments must follow.  \nJune 1,1988  \nThe international debt situationinvolves questions about financialarrangements and about resourceadjustments.To fully appreciate thecomplexity of the problem,one mustconsider both sets of questions andmust understand how they irnteract.  \nAssume,for example,that a debtorcountry must service a debt to theUnited States.Because its financialobligations are in dollars,the debtorcountry must acquire dollarsIt mightdo so initially through the sale ofofficial international reserves,butnations generally hold only smallamounts of reserves and,oncedepleted,must seek other remedies.Over the long run,the debtor canacquire the necessary dollars only byrunning an export surplus.  \nConsequently,a country that mustservice loans through a sustained netcapital outflow must adjust its domestic economic policies to generate acommensurate trade surplus.The  \nFIGURE 1 A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TRADE PATTERNS ANDCAPITAL FLOWS  \nBillions of dollars  \nNOTE:Trade includes all current account items except net interestpayment;capital includes all capital account items except officialreserve transactions,and also net interest payments plus errors andomissions.  \nSOURCE:International Monetary Fund World Economic Outtook,April 1988.  \nin the early 1980s,central banks inindustrial countries began tighteningmonetary policies to stem a rapidacceleration of inflation.Interest ratesrose sharply,and translated quicklyinto higher debt-service costs,because international lending agree-ments permitted frequent adjust-ments to market interest rates.  \nadjustment process requires changesin prices and incomes that canimpose severe social and economiccosts.2 If the debtor cannot makethese adjustments immediately,arescheduling of debt service must follow to buy time for the adjustments;otherwise,the debtor will default.  \n# ■ Rapid Change and\n\nWith th","cbCaijNhKB1H700W","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijNhKB1H700W","pdf",1074561,"English","# Debt Repayment and Economic 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