Looking like a classic external debt story

[Skip to the end] I was just sent this: External debt (%of GDP) Asia 1997 Total Thailand 62% Malaysia 52% Indonesia 42% South Korea 34% Central/Eastern Europe Today Latvia 135% Estonia 114% Hungary 102% Croatia 96% Bulgaria 90% Ukraine 53% Poland 47% Romania 43% Czech 40% Lithuania 40% Turkey 34% [top]