There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup.

Such automatic borrower initiated filings, if made legal by Congress, could reduce the household debt overhang without the need for government subsidies. To the extent that the alternative is costly foreclosure proceedings that make borrowers and lenders worse off, this proposal should attract the support of both sides.

However, while the HIPC initiative has removed the debt overhang for many countries, the burden of debt service payments remains high (see table 1).

The amount of debt relief would then be determined on the basis of expected development assistance and the need to avoid a new debt overhang.

Third, the secular decline in their commodity prices had resulted in a debt overhang that siphoned off scarce resources that could otherwise have been used to fight poverty.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt. It is an even less direct way to address the private, related debt overhang.

NEW YORK A paradox has emerged in the financial markets of the advanced economies since the 2008 global financial crisis. Unconventional monetary policies have created a massive overhang of liquidity.

Attempting to cure an overhang of private debt by issuing mountains of safe government debt is too dangerous. After all, when the private debt was issued, it, too, was considered safe.

But then the US Federal Reserve hid these weaknesses by engineering a housing bubble that led to a consumption boom. It will take years to overcome the excessive indebtedness and real estate overhang that resulted.

In Europe, the recession has lasted six years and counting in Chile, it lasted ten months. Tough regulation and record low interest rates left companies and households with no debt overhang and little need to deleverage.

Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two thirds, it would have been able to shed its crushing debt overhang. It could have used a portion of the interest savings to recapitalize the banks.

Close integration with the world economy through rapid liberalization of trade, finance and investment was seen as the way to remove structural and institutional impediments to growth, reduce the debt overhang and end periodic balance of payments crises.

Legal reforms or the adoption of a family legal code can provide legal protection to families and their children.

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This implies that further progress in trade liberalization will be slow. But slow progress is a far less important challenge to growth prospects than the debt overhang in developed economies, or infrastructure and educational deficiencies in many developing economies.

I can testify from personal experience that investors would flock to Greece once the debt overhang was removed. But the official sector cannot write down its debt, because that would violate a number of taboos, particularly for the ECB.

Moreover, even when public rescue costs are inevitable, they are typically small change compared to the economic harm wrought by the financial crisis and post crisis recession. By contrast, a large debt overhang may be intractable unless policy orthodoxies are challenged.

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(b) The Office of Legal Affairs should ensure that all peacekeeping and other missions where legal assistance is required are staffed with legal officers familiar with the United Nations legal framework, regulations and rules.

16. Encourages the international creditor community to consider appropriate measures for countries with a very high level of debt overhang, including, in particular, the poorest African countries, in order to make an appropriate and consistent contribution to the common objective of debt sustainability

Economic growth can indeed continue to be severely depressed by a debt overhang even when credit supply is unrestricted and cheap. Many Japanese companies were left overleveraged by the boom and bust in credit and real estate in the 1980s and early 1990s.

As the legal reviews need highly specialized knowledge, the Office of Legal Affairs has recommended that the Investment Management Service retain an outside legal firm.