The main datasets analysed were the Families and Children Study; the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey carried out in 1999; the Department of Trade and Industry Over-indebtedness survey, undertaken ...

Tom Fullerton, an economic professor at UTEP, tells ABC-7 you could be spending $1,600 to $2,600 more a year on your ...

Reasonable levels of external debt that help finance productive investment may be expected to enhance growth, but beyond certain levels additional indebtedness may reduce growth. An IMF study ...

The term over-indebtedness is used to describe debt which has become a major burden for the borrower. It can be caused by, and contributes to, social exclusion, financial exclusion and poverty. In ...

Many student loan borrowers are receiving unwelcome messages about their higher education indebtedness, and most of the blame, if not all of it, is attributable to them — their shoulders alone. Lack ...

Economic activity came to a sudden halt due to the COVID‑19 pandemic. This has resulted in widespread income losses, creating a challenging situation for many Canadian households, especially those ...

Professor James’s research challenges common assumptions about indebtedness, demonstrating how the structures propping up ‘credit apartheid’ in South Africa disadvantage its victims by enabling ...