With global interest rates higher for longer and fiscal consolidation back in focus, Budget 2026 is expected to signal how ...

Unlike a one-year fiscal deficit number, the debt-to-GDP ratio gives a clearer picture of the government’s overall financial ...

(Yicai) Jan. 28 -- The ratio of China’s debt to gross domestic product rose to more than 300 percent last year, mainly as a ...

Rearmament, an aging population, technological change and fear of voters are fueling a risky trend.

As India prepares for the upcoming Union Budget, a subtle but significant shift in fiscal strategy is taking centre stage. Rather than focusing solely on a headline fiscal deficit number, the ...

The problem of overwhelming debt has shifted. While poor countries struggled with this burden for years, the threat now comes ...

"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for ...

The move to debt-to-GDP comes after more than two decades of the Indian government targeting a reduction in the fiscal deficit.

In the Budget for 2025–26, the Centre committed to calibrating annual fiscal deficits in a manner that ensures a steady ...

That assumes a growth rate similar to the last decade’s. If the debt rockets up like it has over the last few years, the ...

Policy makers in the government are of the view that this change, which is in line with global practice, will lend the government more space to enhance its development spending. Further, they see the ...

US debt increasingly functions less like a conventional balance sheet liability and more like financial infrastructure. It is ...