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Creditor nation
Definition: Those nations that have a balance of payments surplus.
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CREDITOR NATION: A nation that owes less to foreign governments, businesses, and consumers than foreigners owe to domestic governments, businesses, and consumers.
Paris Club A term used to describe the point at which a debtor nation meets with creditor nations to renegotiate its official debt. parity Equality, as in amount parity price A price for a commodity that is pegged to another price.
Contrasts with creditor nation.
Decile
One of ten segments of a distribution that has been divided into tenths.
Hoarding of gold was no longer encouraged, and in fact Britain exported more capital as a percentage of her national income than any other creditor nation has since.
Rich nations, the IMF and multinationals keep poor countries handicapped by structural adjustment programs and debt, which she calls a form of colonialism. Creditor nations drag out the debt crisis.
have an incentive to sell their foreign investments. This means selling shares. Therefore, stock markets around the world could fall as the Japanese unwind their $6,000bn foreign holdings. (Japan is by far the world's largest creditor nation.
Other institutions such as the WORLD BANK attend in an informal role. Rescheduling requires the consensus agreement of members and must not favour one CREDITOR nation over another. Private debt rescheduling takes place through the London Club.
The nations of western Europe, such as France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden and Norway, fall into a group with Great Britain as creditor nations, while Canada, ...
 See also: Balance of payments, Population, Banks, Saving, Debtor nation
  
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