The United Nations goal with respect to the credit rating would be to convince the credit rating agencies to treat the borrowing as quasi sovereign for credit rating purposes.

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But even with the currently depressed copper price, Chile s budget deficit is only 2 of GDP. As a result of Chile s cautious fiscal strategy, the country has a national debt that amounts to only 16 of GDP and a sovereign debt rating that is the highest in South America.

One of the key challenges is the negative feedback loop between the weaknesses of many banks and the doubts about the peripheral countries sovereign debt. The sovereign debt and banking crises have become even more closely interlinked as banks bought greater amounts of their home countries sovereign debt.

Table 3 Recent sovereign debt restructurings with private creditors main features

15. Reiterates the importance of the orderly resolution of sovereign debt crises, notes the increasing voluntary use of collective action clauses in international sovereign bonds, and takes note of the efforts led by sovereign debtors and private creditors to develop a voluntary code of conduct for the resolution of sovereign debt crises

Noted the request of Iraq for the cancellation or reduction of their sovereign debt.

In establishing a credit rating on a United Nations bond issue, the credit rating agencies would focus on the source and probability of timely debt service payments, in accordance with the terms applicable to the bond issue.

The solution to breaking the nexus between sovereign debt crises and banking crises is straightforward limit banks to lending where evaluation of borrowers willingness and ability to repay isn t a great leap in the dark. This means no cross border sovereign debt (or esoteric instruments, such as collateralized debt obligations).

When a sovereign decides that its foreign debt is unsustainable, the government and its creditors have had to negotiate among themselves about what to do. For sovereign bonds held by other sovereigns, the Paris Club of creditor countries has developed procedures for handling the debt.

Rating agencies would consider this debt exchange a credit event, but only for a very short period a matter of a few weeks. Consider Uruguay, whose rating was downgraded to selective default for two weeks while the exchange was occurring, and then was upgraded (though not to investment grade) when, thanks to the exchange s success, its public debt became more sustainable.

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Recognizing the current debate on sovereign debt restructuring, especially the efforts led by sovereign debtors and private creditors to develop a voluntary code of conduct, and stressing that modalities for sovereign debt restructuring should be voluntary, market friendly and flexible, with due consideration of the specific circumstances of individual countries, and should result from the participation of all relevant stakeholders,

(f) continue deliberations on the creation of a framework to deal effectively with all sovereign debt of developing countries.

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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.

Finally, GDP indexed bonds and other tools for dealing sensibly with unsustainable debt could be applied exclusively to member states debt not covered by the program and in line with international best practices for sovereign debt management.

Nonetheless, Argentina s latest debt trauma shows that the global system for sovereign debt workouts remains badly in need of repair. Deepening domestic debt markets and perhaps change along the lines proposed by the IMF is sorely needed.

Their economies are still tumbling, and the debt continues to grow. The credit ratings agency Standard Poor s has just downgraded the sovereign debt ratings of nine eurozone countries, including France.

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The credit ratings agency Standard amp Poor s has just downgraded the sovereign debt ratings of nine eurozone countries, including France.

The rating agencies have long placed Greek debt deep in junk territory, and are now giving Portuguese and Irish debt the same status. Rising spreads in Spain and Italy show that contagion is already occurring, even in the absence of an official decision to write down Greek debt.

Meanwhile, governments were running large deficits a legacy of the economic downturn which renewed growth was supposed to shrink. In the eurozone, countries like Greece faced sovereign debt crises as bank bailouts turned private debt into public debt.

But the stimulus measures transformed a banking crisis into a fiscal and sovereign debt crisis. From 2010 onwards, governments started to raise taxes and cut spending in response to growing fears of sovereign default.

When big US banks are in trouble or Americans are having another debilitating political fight over their public finances, global investors scramble into US Treasuries. Last year s congressional showdown over the federal debt ceiling may have cost the US its AAA sovereign rating with Standard Poor s, but the federal government s borrowing costs are actually lower now than they were then.

The international community has, so far, failed to develop effective and equitable arrangements for restructuring sovereign debt, despite the clearly dysfunctional and problematic consequences of past international public debt crises. This prevents timely debt workouts when needed, effectively impeding recovery.

True, the country s periodic debt crises are often the result of self destructive macroeconomic policies. But, this time, the default has been triggered by a significant shift in the international sovereign debt regime.

Regardless of how the current impasse is resolved, the ruling raises many questions for issuers and holders of sovereign debt. If creditors now believe that holding out makes it more likely that they will receive full value at a later date, restructuring sovereign debt and restoring a debtor economy s normal functioning will be more difficult.

Until the euro crisis, it was generally believed that problems servicing sovereign debt occurred only in emerging markets and the least developed countries. The US Supreme Court s decision on Argentina adds a new wrinkle, and may well further increase the risk attached to holding sovereign debt and this to the cost of issuing it.

This distinction between foreign and domestic debt is particularly important in the context of the euro crisis, because eurozone countries cannot devalue to increase exports if this is required to service foreign debt. And the evidence confirms that the euro crisis is not really about sovereign debt, but about foreign debt.

We welcome the commitment of the Paris Club to reduce substantially Iraq's sovereign debt and urge the other creditors to take similar decisions.

The credit rating agencies would probably evaluate the United Nations for credit rating purposes based on various criteria, including

Europeans, too, have become dependent on low interest rates, with the European Central Bank as the key stabilizing force. Without the ECB s commitment, in place since 2012, to prevent sovereign debt yields from soaring, there would be a persistent risk to the eurozone and, indeed, to the entire edifice of the European Union of sovereign debt defaults.

Sovereign debt has been a major feature of the international financial system for centuries. Kings borrowed, often internationally, to finance wars and other expenditures.

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We cannot foster sustainable growth or preempt a sovereign debt crisis in Europe (or anywhere else) by piling up more debt. European countries need to reduce their deficits in a growth friendly fashion, but reduce them they must.

And then I got my instructor rating.

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