Question: For a country that interests you and for the region in which the country you chose is located and for the low- and middle-income countries, use the table below to input the requested information for two years, using data for, say, 1990 and the most current year. You can find the data for parts a-c (below) at https://www.worldbank.org. Click on "Data," then "Data by Topic" and then choose "Debt." For d go to https://hdr.undp.org/ reports and then in the left-hand column click on "HDR," then click on "Chapters" and then choose "Tables" (you will have to do a search on "debt service" to find exactly where the data is located). Find and record the following for two years
a total external debt;
b long-term debt as a share (i.e., percentage) of total debt (you will have to calculate this!);
c by what percentage the total external debt of the low- and middle-income countries has increased between the two years;
d debt service ratio (using exports as the base, not GDP) for the two years. Has your country's situation improved?
For each of these items, briefly (in a sentence or two) explain what these specific values for your country mean and how your country measures up to the region to which your country belongs and compared to all low- and middle-income economies.
