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Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone were granted a debt relief of $100m by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was given to help relieve their financial burdens those especially due to the Ebola epidemic. Ebola has greatly ate up their aid funds in healthcare and programs.

This article highlights how the foreign debt of The Philippines has decreased over the years.

This article discusses Greek's overwhelming debt load, and anti-austerity sentiments in voters. Greek currently has the second largest debt burden as a percentage of GDP of all developed countries in the world, after Japan. Furthermore, Greece currently has an unemployment rate of 25 percent.

The article discusses how foreign debt has increased in Japan. For example, net purchases of Canada's sovereign bonds maturing in more than a year rose to ¥99.5 billion ($822 million), the most since May 2010.

This article talks about Mr. Ed Balls of the UK stating his fiscal policy. He claims that with his strategy, the nation's national debt would reduce significantly. This fiscal policy is compared to be as similar as Chancellor George Osborne's strategy he claimed last month. He promises to run a budget surplus by 2020 but plans to clear the annual deficit by 2018 with his fiscal policy. The rest of the article compares the two men's statements.

This is a 2013 article about US debt. The debt limit of $16.699 trillion was reached. Since then the US Treasury has been using what are called extraordinary measures to keep paying the bills.

This is an article on how Bangladesh looks to increase the number of factories, as a means of keeping up with exports, which will then help may back debts. International trade is key for Bangladesh, since they are not able to produce everything they need, so it is important that they are able to pay back sellers, so that the sellers continue selling for a cheap price.

The Ugandan parliament is pushing export-led growth by pressuring export industry organizations to increase productivity. This is to decrease Ugandan deficit, so the income would be spent on debt service and not economic development.