About the authors: Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century .

Sovereign default risks are on course to rise further in 2021, with Iraq, Sri Lanka, Angola and Gabon at high probability of default, say Goldman Sachs analysts.

Emerging market debt has had a very salient couple of years, changing from a relatively sane, higher-yield product to a riskier product. In recent years, sovereign defaults have become a problem, ...

Jochen Andritzky’s book demonstrates the importance of analysing CDS prices alongside bond prices in assessing the likelihood of sovereign default and expected recovery values. Felix Salmon examines ...

* WEF highlights threat from fiscal crises, chronic diseases * Risk of underinvestment in infrastructure also key * Warns of increased interconnection among risks * Danger that underlying strains, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's smallest economies, especially in Africa, could be at increased risk of being unable to pay their debts in the medium term, even as developing nations have ...

2024 JUN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily-- Investigators publish new report on Investment. According to news reporting from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ...

Moody’s attempt to improve the transparency and predictability of its credit ratings should be welcomed. But is it high time the agency dropped the pretence of default-signalling when, like its rivals ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Infant mortality rises and life expectancy falls when sovereign debt defaults are not quickly resolved, a study said on Wednesday, as negotiations to restructure the debts of ...

Mr. Lofgren is a former staff member of the House and Senate budget committees. Since 1960, Congress has acted 78 times to increase the statutory debt limit to avert a government default. Indeed, when ...