It is past time for the international community – including the international financial institutions, the EU, the United States, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) – to raise the resources needed to give these countries sufficient fiscal space to meet their people’s immediate needs. If €250 billion ($325 billion) can be found to rescue Greece, it is certainly not too much to ask of the international community to find €100 billion to ensure successful democratic transitions in countries that are starting with low external-debt levels.