Foreign debt, otherwise known as external debt, is the part of total debt held by creditors of foreign countries, i.e. non-residents of the debtor's country.
According to BUSINESS DICTIONARY, Foreign Debt is an amount a country owes to other countries either directly as a result of government –to-government loans or indirectly because of negative balance of trade
Foreign debt is placed within four broad categories:
A generally applied benchmark for an acceptable level of external debt is that the net present value (NPV) of a country's external public debt should be less than 150% of its exports or 250% of its revenues.
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Ukwa, Ana "NIGERIA FOREIGN DEBT AND THEIR CHALLENGES IN ECONOMY RECOVERY" Afribary. Afribary, 26 Mar. 2018, https://track.afribary.com/works/nigeria-foreign-debt-and-their-challenges-in-economy-recovery. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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Ukwa, Ana . "NIGERIA FOREIGN DEBT AND THEIR CHALLENGES IN ECONOMY RECOVERY" Afribary (2018). Accessed September 20, 2024. https://track.afribary.com/works/nigeria-foreign-debt-and-their-challenges-in-economy-recovery