foreign debt
noun
: the amount of money that a country owes other countries
the nation's growing foreign debt
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Indeed, even the Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid proposed that Egypt might be compensated for playing an administrative role in Gaza in exchange for international relief of its foreign debt obligations.
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Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Argentina’s large and restructured stock of foreign debt, together with its obligations with the IMF, present another major challenge in the near future.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Yields from foreign debt can be affected by currency markets.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
For years leading up to the pandemic, the African continent as a whole suffered financially more from foreign investors’ profit transfers and from illicit financial flows than from foreign debt payments.
—Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024
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Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Argentina’s large and restructured stock of foreign debt, together with its obligations with the IMF, present another major challenge in the near future.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Yields from foreign debt can be affected by currency markets.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
For years leading up to the pandemic, the African continent as a whole suffered financially more from foreign investors’ profit transfers and from illicit financial flows than from foreign debt payments.
—Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Foreign debt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20debt. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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