India's external debt stock increased 8.9% to $376.3 billion at the end of December 2012 from $345.5 billion at the end of March 2012. According to data released by the Finance Ministry, short-term debt accounted for 24.4% of India's external debt while the remaining (75.6%) was long-term debt.

The share of Government (Sovereign) and non-Government debt in the total external debt were 21.7% and 78.3%, respectively, at the of end December 2012. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.