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alt. 1 (context countable finance English) A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries. 2 (context uncountable economics English) An aggregate amount of such debts. n. 1 (context countable finance English) A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries. 2 (context uncountable economics English) An aggregate amount of such debts.
Usage examples of "foreign debt".
With a foreign debt now in the billions, any hope that was left for our Independence is handcuffed in debtor’.
You think he wanted to pay off the foreign debt for the sake of national responsibility?
After close to two decades of bureaucratic mismanagement, political repression, and corruption by the governing National Front (FLN), Algeria was saddled with more than $25 billion in foreign debt, and nearly 30 percent of its population was unemployed.
An economy managed under the well-known socialist principles of chaos and ruination which has resulted in a negative growth rate of up to ten percent per annum for every year since the Portuguese withdrawal, a foreign debt amounting to double the gross national product, a total breakdown in the educational system, only five percent of children regularly attending a recognized school, one doctor per forty-five thousand persons, only one person in ten with access to purified drinking water, infant mortality at three hundred forty per thousand births?
We are already dependent on the Russian Federation for so much of our raw materials, trade, foreign debt, and political influence.
A metanational takes over the foreign debt and the internal economy of its client countries, kind of like the UN did in Cambodia, or Praxis in Sri Lanka, but much more comprehensively.
Meeting held in Punta del Este at which was proclaimed the Alliance for Progress in which the debtor nations except Egypt repudiated their loans and erased foreign debt.
In mid-August, Russia had defaulted on its foreign debt, and by the end of the month the Russian collapse had caused large drops in stock markets across the world.
Its development and construction had cost more than the foreign debt of some European nations.
Real per capita GNP is three-fourths what it was in 1980, and foreign debt absorbs 30 percent of export earnings.