India External Debt
India's external debt, as at the end-March 2020 was US$ 558.5 billion. Currently, the worlds' most indebted country is the United States (U.S.A.), followed by the United Kingdom. Is this the money India owes to external agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? So first define debt based on their maturities:- Long term - loan with a maturity period of more than one year. Short Term - debt has a maturity period of less than one year. But, Short term external debt also includes interest payment of long term debt. As its complex to understand why and how we take this burden of loan or its only bore by the government of India. Let's understand some of its components - Multilateral Credit - borrowed by GOI from global institutions like the Internation Monetary Fund ...