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debt relief movement  

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  • During the last decade of the 20th century, a network of organizations from several countries formed to address the issue of Third World debt. The escalating level of debt owed by the governments of developing nations was so crippling that basic services in many of those countries began to collapse. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Debt Relief Movement]

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