Seeking Forgiveness of Saddam-era debt
SO THAT’S HOW it is with hundred-billion-dollar debt restructurings: you wait decades for one to arrive, and then two come along at the same time.
Dealing with Iraq’s and Argentina’s defaulted debt is surely the greatest test yet for the international financial system. It is already creaking under the strain.
Both countries are special cases, we’re told, so large they can’t be considered precedent-setting. But Argentina and Iraq are both middle-income countries seeking unprecedented levels of debt relief: the only thing that sets them apart from other countries in similar positions is the sheer size of their debt loads.
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