Putting sustainable development first: why countries' ability to sustain debt should be assessed from a sustainable development perspective
Putting sustainable development first: why countries' ability to sustain debt should be assessed from a sustainable development perspective
Sustainability and debt repayment
Short briefing on the intrinsic link existing between debt sustainability and sustainable development. It shows how the use of a ‘bottom-up’ approach to debt sustainability can presentthis relationship explicitly while at the same time giving a more precise account of what constitutes an affordable level of debt from a sustainable development perspective.
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