"debt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From the right, Richard Perle and William F. Buckley Jr. have called for freeing Iraq of its "odious debt" on moral grounds.
- Due to religious sanctions against odious debt, Tamil Muslims have historically been money changers (not money lenders) throughout South and South East Asia.
- (This odious debt was incurred between 1993 and 2005, while Lebanon was under foreign occupation.)
- A widely held view in Washington is that loans made to the Hussein government amount to "odious debt" that the lenders should forgive.
- In December 2008, he declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that it was odious debt contracted by corrupt and despotic prior regimes.
- However, as the concept of odious debt is not accepted, trying to deal with the debt on those terms would have embroiled Iraq in legal disputes for years.
- International financial institutions continue to impose so-called 'structural adjustments' by maintaining the odious foreign debt of countries in the developing world, and imposing cuts and privatisations on the health sector when shortages are already enormous.
- Determine whether any of the debt being undertaken may be held to be odious debt, which might permit it to be disavowed without any effect on a country's credit status.
- Developing countries' debt has often been qualified as an odious debt and a mean of neocolonialism, in particular by "third-worldism" (tiers-mondisme) and the more recent alter-globalization movement.
- The Journal's February 2007 symposium concerned the international legal ramifications of odious debt.
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