State and Private Sector Borrowing

Ljubljana, 4 July - The share of the public debt and the public guaranteed debt between 1991 and 1999 reduced drastically (down from 77% to less than 50%) mainly due to a sharper increase in private non-guaranteed debt. Two thirds of the increase in Slovene external debt should be attributed to the private borrowing and only one third to the borrowing of public debtors, a closer analysis of external debt shows.