Term:
Official debt
Definition:
Official debt is debt owed to a bilateral government agency or a multilateral development agency. As well as debt arising from official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows (OOFs), it includes former private sector debt that has been rescheduled by the official sector
Domain:
Finance
Source:
Development Assistance Committee (DAC) International Development Statistics – Handbook for Reporting Debt Reorganisation on the DAC Questionnaire