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third-world debt  

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  • The rapid growth in the external debt of third-world states has been a key issue since the early 1980s. Debt itself is not something that is unique to the third world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Third-World Debt]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/third-world_debt

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