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social science subjects > business and management > international business > economics of international business > debt
... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > poverty > economics of poverty > debt
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social science subjects > business and management > finance > financing > debt
... > social science subjects > sociology > environmental, urban and regional sociology > environmental sociology > society > debt

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debt  

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  • DEBT IS AN AMOUNT of money that is owed, measured in a single snapshot of time, as a result of previous borrowing. Debt is a stock concept, as opposed to flow concepts in economics, which are expressed over certain periods of time. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Debt]

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