As a consequence of global crisis effects,the International Monetary Fund (2013d) has revised the
methodology of the public debt sustainability assessment, also applying it to the countries with a market economy,
separately for emergent countries and respectively advanced ones. The analytic assessment of the public debt
sustainability is based on several indicators concerning its burden, as well as its financial profile, respectively:
maturity, currency composition, type of creditors a. o. Comparing to the benchmarks concerning the risks early
warning of the public debt sustainability for the emergent countries (IMF, 2013d, p. 30) it results that Romania is
exceeding them in the case of external financing requirements (23.7% of GDP as against the benchmark of 15%),
the average increase of the public debt amount from the GDP (higher in the case of Romania as against the
benchmark of 1 pp), the cumulative 3 year primary balance (deficit of 0.7% as against the benchmark of 2% of
GDP), the public debt hold by nonresidents (higher than the benchmark of 45% of the total public debt)