unpayable debt
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debt
noun[C or U]
uk/det/us/det/
something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of ...
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(Definition ofdebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unpayabledebtrelief, however important, is hardly a step forward in aid or investment.
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We are using the leverage of debt relief to write offunpayabledebtand get good economic policy and better social spending.
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Every day that developed nations delay the relief ofunpayabledebt, opportunities for education, health care and sustainable development are lost.
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Unpayabledebtis wrong because it restricts the ability of countries to move out of poverty.
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They rightly stated that "the remission ofunpayabledebtof the world's most indebted countries was no longer an impossible ideal but a practical necessity".
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While we need to cancel theunpayabledebt, we need to recognise that debt of itself is not bad.
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They require the unemployed to fund emergencies out of inadequate incomes, thus forcing them into moreunpayabledebt.
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Jubilee 2000 seeks the cancellation of theunpayabledebtof developing countries by the year 2000.
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The current situation where creditors alone decide on how to deal withunpayabledebtis clearly inappropriate and to date this has failed to resolve the decades long debt crisis.
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Despite the prominence of her family in the church, they lived in genteel poverty, their property burdened byunpayabledebt.
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But we share the objective of early cancellation of the unpayable debts of the poorest, most heavily indebted countries.
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We seek the same overall objective—the remission of the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries.
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One in five ranked cancelling the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries as the best way in which to celebrate the millennium.
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