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It is debt service payments , swollen by high interest rates , that made external debt a major problem in the last decade . In 1990 the 111 developing countries reporting their debt to the World Bank paid $ 66 billion in interest and ...
It is debt service payments , swollen by high interest rates , that made external debt a major problem in the last decade . In 1990 the 111 developing countries reporting their debt to the World Bank paid $ 66 billion in interest and ...
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debts . Nay , in the very places where they are supposed to exercise their liberties most , there they are most in ... to go back to the Athens of Solon to find precedents for the relief of sovereign debt , or debt owed by governments .
debts . Nay , in the very places where they are supposed to exercise their liberties most , there they are most in ... to go back to the Athens of Solon to find precedents for the relief of sovereign debt , or debt owed by governments .
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This connection finds a reflection in some of the debt - relief measures now being pursued in the form of “ debt for nature ” swaps . Countries are in effect relieved of some of their debt by repaying it at a discount in their local ...
This connection finds a reflection in some of the debt - relief measures now being pursued in the form of “ debt for nature ” swaps . Countries are in effect relieved of some of their debt by repaying it at a discount in their local ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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