Debt relief was accorded to Chad in May 2001.

* Debt relief

Debt relief is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.

Debt relief for heavily indebted and underdeveloped developing countries was the subject in the 1990s of a campaign by a broad coalition of development NGOs, Christian organizations and others, under the banner of Jubilee 2000.

Debt relief existed in a number of ancient societies:

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In 2002, Shriver was a co-founder – with U2 lead singer Bono – of DATA ( Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa ), a multinational, non-government organization whose purpose is to obtain social equality and justice for Africa through debt relief ; adjust trade rules which burden Africa ; eliminate the African AIDS epidemic ; and strengthen democracy with more accountability by the wealthiest nations and African leaders with transparency towards the people.

* ' Debt relief hopes bring out the critics – BBC

*** Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative, US $

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* Debt relief, the partial or total " lifting-back " or forgiveness of debt

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She also had a poignant role in the thriller The Debt Collector ( 1999 ).

Cochrane reprised his role as Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami in the episode " Bang, Bang, Your Debt ", as a hallucination to Det.

* Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt, a book by Nobel prize-winning chemist Frederick Soddy on monetary policy and society and the role of energy in economic systems.

“ A continuation of previous Bank policies to reduce the state to a coordination and regulation role, leaving private companies to organise production and service delivery .”< ref > European Network on Debt and Development.

The inhabitants of this district had important role in the indigo resistance movement, Sannyasi uprising, swadeshi movement and Debt Arbitration Movement.

Debt holdings may also offer some measure of control to the investor if the company is a fledgling start-up or an old giant undergoing ' restructuring '.

After the sale was closed, some movies already developed at Miramax, including The Tempest and Gnomeo & Juliet, were eventually released by Disney under its Touchstone Pictures banner, and theatrical distribution of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and The Debt has been shifted to FilmDistrict and Focus Features respectively.

It was not their Intention in the least at that Time to molest their Neighbours and Fellow Christians with Collections, for it has the appearance last Fall, as if they should have a promising Crop this Harvest, but that Hope is all lost for the most part of the Grane is kill'd with the Frost, and the Rest is destroy'd by the Insects, and now they have such a heavy Debt to pay, which they are not able to discharge out of their own Pokets: So they are obliged to implore all good-minded Christians who has it in their Hearts to promote the kingdom of Christ to assist them and lay some mite for the said Building of the said Church in the Hands of their Fellow Brothers wiiich they have send for that purpose Namely Albertus Simon and Jacob Weager.

", " Jesus Paid the Debt ", and " One More River ", among many other gospel songs some of which he wrote himself.

The anthropologist David Graeber argues in Debt: The First 5000 Years that trade starts with some sort of credit namely the promise to pay later for already handed over goods.

The annual army expenditures were some 7, 756, 000 liras out of a total national budget of 18, 927, 000 liras for 1897 ; when the Debt Administration claimed 6, 483. 000 liras, little was left for investment in economic development.

As demonstrated above, Wells did have some knowledge of atomic physics, and William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy's discovery of the disintegration of uranium ; Soddy's book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt praises The World Set Free.

Debt for nature swaps are tools used to encourage natural area preservation in third world countries while assisting the country economically as well: in exchange for setting aside land, some of the country's foreign debt is forgiven.

" The author's ironical appraisal is already expressed in the title of the novel, and also in the titles of some of the chapters ...: " Free of Debt ", " Years of Prosperity ".

Debt financing can take the form of credits from commercial Banks, credits from international financial institutions such as the World Bank and regional development banks ( in the case of developing countries ), and bonds ( in the case of some developed countries and some upper middle-income countries ).

" In 1998, however, Congress amended the Internal Revenue Code by adding a new section 6304, " Fair Tax Collection Practices ," which refers to and includes certain rules that are similar to some provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

In practice this cannot happen – some of GDP must go to survival – and historically debt repayment rates during periods of repayment have been about 4 %– 10 % of GDP ( as in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II ), so practical time to repay debt is rather Debt / GDP times 10 – 25.

Debt is often issued with a repayment plan ( a " time to maturity " in some cases ), repayment times may be between a few days ( interbank cash flow management ) and 50 years or longer ( consumer real estate debt ).

Debt ( in the form of bonds ) has some advantages over equity as a way of raising money, since it can have tax benefits and can enforce a cash discipline.

In the United Kingdom, some tax collection of " lower value debts " by HMRC has been out sourced to Debt Collection Agencies from July 2010.

" Debt slavery " ( where workers are forced to work to pay an ever-increasing debt ) still exists in some rural areas, though it is illegal and the government actively fights against it.

Danziger lampooned the Bush administration in many of his cartoons, some of which are collected in the anthologies Wreckage Begins with ' W and Blood, Debt and Fears.

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

* Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership

International Debt will reach 25 % of the GDP by 2010, down from 35 % in 2006, and will be only 12 % of the GDP by 2015.

Debt of Honor ( 1994 ) is a novel by Tom Clancy.

Debt securities are generally issued for a fixed term and redeemable by the issuer at the end of that term.

Debt securities may be protected by collateral or may be unsecured, and, if they are unsecured, may be contractually " senior " to other unsecured debt meaning their holders would have a priority in a bankruptcy of the issuer.

:* Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement, by James M. Buchanan, at the Library of Economics and Liberty

Debt bondage has been defined by the United Nations as a form of " modern day slavery " and is prohibited by international law.

His " Debt Moratorium Act " prevented foreclosures by giving people extra time to pay creditors and reclaim property without being forced to pay back-taxes.

The resulting debt became known as the " California War Debt " or " Army Appropriations Bill " and in 1854-though not entirely clear why, as Secretary of War Jefferson Davis wrote California that their ' war ' expenditures could not be authorized without the original bills of sale to verify the purpose was one intended by congress ; the bill of sale for the bounty was the head.

Bad Debt is a loan that can not ( partially or fully ) be repaid by the debtor.

Some problems with microcredit are mistakenly alleged in The Micro Debt, a film by the Danish journalist Tom Heinemann.

Debt slavery can persist across generations, future generations being made to work to pay off debts incurred by past generations.

The riksdaler specie was minted in silver, the riksdaler banco was issued by the Bank and the riksdaler riksgälds was issued by the Debt Office.

The Swedish National Debt Office ( or shortly Riksgälden ) founded by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1789, is a Government agency in Sweden.

The first task of the Debt office was to finance the War against Russia started by King Gustav III.

The reason why the funds couldn't be raised through the Riksbank was that its notes had to be backed by Silver ( commodity money ) to two thirds, while no such restrictions applied for the promissory notes ( credit money ) issued by the Debt office.