When does debt restructuring or refinancing create savings that are genuinely available for investment?
A country-assessed strategy: applicability, maximum capacity, usable share and time profile depend on actual country conditions.
country-assessed
Debt swaps / refinancing savings
Use savings from debt swaps or refinancing for investment without turning new debt into ordinary funding for permanent costs.
not allowed
allowed
When it can be counted
- A credible legal and administrative basis must exist to collect, save or transfer the resources concerned.
- Usable capacity must be estimated separately from a theoretical or planning ceiling.
- Administrative costs, distributional effects, incentives and avoidance risks must be considered before crediting resources to material-security financing.
What it does not prove
- In the current model it is an investment-only strategy.
- A new loan is not counted as a saving; net flows and debt sustainability matter.
They are not resources already available or funding already secured.
These families remain instruments to parameterize with context-specific data and rules. No entry is treated as an available resource merely because it appears in the catalogue; global quantitative feasibility remains to be demonstrated.
Sources and further detail
External sources used to assess public finance, fiscal capacity and financing instruments are linked on the Sources page. World4Humans internal technical working materials are not publicly distributed.