debtor nation
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Other experts said the Tolchins confronted important issues, such as the country’s transformation from creditor to a debtor nation.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2016
No wonder we have become the world’s leading debtor nation.
From Forbes • Jan. 2, 2015
"So in effect you've already got Turkmenistan being a debtor nation to China - and that puts the Chinese in a very strong position."
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2014
By the early 1970s, however, other countries had robust economies, and the U.S. was a debtor nation.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2012
A debtor nation like Germany is highly sensitive to these conditions, and just as she is overcoming, by her splendid success as a manufacturing nation this problem, she is met by increased and ever-increasing rivalry.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price
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