Synonyms for public debt
pub·lic debt

Princeton's WordNet

1. public debtnoun

   the total of the nation's debts: debts of local and state and national governments; an indicator of how much public spending is financed by borrowing instead of taxation

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1. Hun Sen:

   Cambodia has not only been able to plan this project for the benefit of the people but also achieve financial engineering that does not increase public debt to the state.

2. Andrew Colquhoun:

   One reason why Japan is at single A, which is a low rating, is the fragility around the baseline case for the public debt, the tolerance to fluctuations in growth and interest rates is low.

3. Sahap Kavcioglu:

   That might not be a problem now given that Turkey's public finances are relatively strong — public debt is low at around 40 % of GDP — but it would cause the public debt dynamics to worsen.

4. Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek:

   The level of rates currently suggests we are in this for the long haul, certainly for a generation, certainly more than a decade, looking at Japan, a big part of the slowdown was demographics. But in Japan the growth of public debt was there to compensate - is Europe prepared for that? I don't know.

5. Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf:

   We have built reserves, cut public debt to near-zero levels and we are now working on cutting unnecessary expenses while focusing on main development projects and on building human resources in the kingdom, there are some projects like the ones that have been approved a few years ago and haven't been carried out until now - that means such projects are not currently necessary and can be delayed.