Why did some developing country governments accumulate large foreign debt burdens in the late twentieth century while others did not? I hypothesize that variation in foreign indebtedness is a product of the impact of regime type on government borrowing and investment decisions. Autocratic regimes will borrow more from foreign lenders and invest fewer of these funds in public goods than democrat...

Despite recent multilateral efforts to single out child labor in debt bondage as one of the worst forms of child labor, several important questions have yet to be addressed: Howpervasive is the phenomenon?Are there systematic correlations between the incidence of children in debt bondage and the economic, legislative, and financial development indicators of the economy? How does an understandin...

AIMS To determine the debt level that current Auckland medical students expect to graduate with, and evaluate this debt in the context of their career aspirations and intended place of practice. METHODS Simple check-box and fill-in-the-blank surveys were distributed to Auckland University medical students in Years 1 through to 5 during their second week of scheduled lectures in March 2000. St...

the debt is one of the principal component of accounting equation and capital structure of most companies. during last fifteen years the usage trend of debt was increasingly improved in companies' eps. american ones. in this research we tried to answer the following question: is there any meaningful relation between debt ratio and return on assets (roa) in sec of tehran and its industries?...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate this impact on male and female English medical graduates by estimating the total time and amount repaid on loans taken out with the UK's Student Loans Company (SLC). SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS 4286 respondents with a medical degree in the Labour Force Surveys administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) between 1997 and 2014. OUTCOMES Age-salary profiles we...

Despite tremendous recent interest in the subject of student debt by both researchers and policy makers, little is known about how the distribution of college graduate debt has been evolving and what factors can explain it. We use National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data from 1990 through 2008 to document the evolution of college graduate debt profiles. We find that growth in debt over the...

in the context of international trade factoring as one of the important ways of financing, is a dominant method of asset based financing for small and medium enterprises. financing through factoring be done in the form of a contract between the creditor and factor, and determining the legal nature of this contract is important to identify and determine its effects. with this regard, this paper ...

The stock of sovereign debt is typically measured at face value. Defined as the undiscounted sum of future principal repayments, face values are misleading when debts are issued with different contractual forms or maturities. In this paper, we construct alternative measures of the stock of external sovereign debt for 100 developing countries from 1979 through 2006 that correct for differences i...