Talk:National debt of the Philippines

Categories of lenders
The Philippine government (and in general, most developing countries) classify their institutional debtors as official (foreign governments or multilateral institutions) and commercial (foreign banks). Official debts include bilateral debt (government to government loans) and multilateral debt (i.e., loans made by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank). The article should reflect this. Randytuano (talk) 09:52, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Origins of external debt
The Philippines had some amount of foreign debt even before the advent of the Marcos administration. The article should reflect this fact.Randytuano (talk) 09:52, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Reduce generalizations
The article may wish to reduce generalizations by provide more information on some of the assertions. For example, the second paragraph starts with, "Most of this debt can be traced to the Marcos administration, which had borrowed a big lump sum of money from the United States." The article may wish to clarify how large the "big lump sum of money" and which specific institutions in the United States did the Marcos government borrow money. Randytuano (talk) 09:52, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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Figures do not make sense
The numbers quoted just don't make sense. An external debt of 110 thousand dollars is a trivial amount. The public debt figures don't make sense either. Someone has got the decimal point in the wrong place. By a factor of a million, perhaps? 82.132.236.209 (talk) 17:13, 6 June 2019 (UTC)