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Doomed Venezuela: This One Number Shows Just How Bad It Is
Simon Constable

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The country now owes over seven times more money to its foreign creditors, than it earns from its increasingly limited exports, new research shows.

The country's external debts total $145 billion, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) a Washington-based think tank, which just published a report on the matter. Those debts stem from direct government borrowing and as well as from loans taken out by the state-owned oil company PDVSA. There is also a small level of private sector borrowing.

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The problem is that the debts dwarf the country's key source of foreign currency revenue -- exports.

Read more at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/03/08/doomed-venezuela-this-one-number-shows-just-how-bad-it-is/#db3961048a84


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