"Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries is a
continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997
through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996).
As in previous years,GDF 2012 provides statistical tables showing the external
debt of 129 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt
to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of key debt
ratios for individual reporting countries and the composition of external debt stocks and
flows for individual reporting countries and regional and income groups along with some
graphical presentations.
GDF 2012 draws on a database maintained by the World Bank External Debt (WBXD)
system. Longer time series and more detailed data are available from the Global
Development Finance 2012 on CD-ROM and the World Bank open databases, which contain more
than 200 time series indicators, covering the years 1970 to 2010 for most reporting
countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments
to 2018.
340 pages, Paperback