The central bank reveals the value of Iraq’s domestic and foreign debt
The central bank reveals the value of Iraq’s domestic and foreign debt
2020-03-14
The Governor of the Central Bank, Ali Al-Alaq, revealed today, Saturday, that Iraq’s external debts amount to about 23 billion dollars, while internal debts amount to about 40 trillion Iraqi dinars.
Al-Alaq said in his study on “Reducing the Iraqi dinar exchange rate, determinants and alternatives,” and published by the official website of the Central Bank, that “the external debt of Iraq amounts to about 23 billion dollars, except for the outstanding debt before 2003 of 40.9 billion dollars.”
Noting that “the internal debts amount to about 40 trillion dinars, representing treasury transfers and bonds with government banks and the Central Bank of Iraq.”
The relationship added, “When a country is in debt and pays its debts and interest in the currency of the creditor country, the burden of the debts resulting from it in this case increases in the general budget of the state where a greater amount of its national currency is allocated to pay off its debt in foreign currency,” continuing: “If the country is The debtor pays in its national currency, because it pays the same amount of debts and interest. ”
It is noteworthy that during the year 2014, Iraq borrowed after the drop in oil prices from financial institutions and organizations, in addition to borrowing from home by selling treasury bonds.
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