Iraq: Sustainability Of Debt Service And Reparations Payments

...% in 2005 to 13% in 2009. In 2010 it jumps to 27% after principal payment is added to the interest payment, which would have started in 2005. The ratio declines to 24% in 2014, (Table 4). If 25% is taken as a yardstick over which the burden becomes heavy then debt service seems largely tolerable ev...