Debt levels in the private and public sector remain high. At the end of 2013, world total debt (ex-financials) stood at over 210% of global GDP, up from about 160% at the beginning of the 2000s (Buttiglione et al., 2014).
The very fact that CCTV America is available in Barbados, and that its global coverage is among the most dispassionate, informative and sympathetic to my sensibilities, of any international broadcaster, is something that was inconceivable back then.