Examples of debt bondage in the following topics:
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- In more recent times slavery has been outlawed in most societies, but continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.
- Most are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.
- Debt bondage or bonded labor occurs when a person pledges himself or herself against a loan.
- The services required to repay the debt and their duration may be undefined.
- Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation, with children required to pay off their parents' debt.
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- Countries have developed at an uneven rate because wealthy countries have exploited poor countries in the past and continue to do so today through foreign debt and foreign trade.
- Today, poor countries are trapped by large debts which prevent them from developing.
- African countries have paid back $550 billion of their debt but they still owe $295 billion.
- Countries cannot focus on economic or human development when they are constantly paying off debt; these countries will continue to remain undeveloped.
- Dependency theorists believe large economic aid is not necessarily the key to reducing poverty and developing, but rather debt relief may be a more effective step.
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- As a critic of socialism, he warned that placing the economy entirely in the state's bureaucratic control would result in an "iron cage of future bondage".
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- Countries have developed at an uneven rate because wealthy countries have exploited poor countries in the past and today through foreign debt and transnational corporations (TNCs).
- Instead, poor countries are trapped by large debts which prevent them from developing.
- African countries have paid back $550 billion of their debt but they still owe $295 billion.
- Countries cannot focus on economic or human development when they are constantly paying off debt.
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- India is an example of a British colony that did not achieve independence until the mid-20th century, remaining mired by foreign debts and lack of capital for decades after.
- India is an example of a British colony that did not achieve independence until the mid-20th century and that remained mired by foreign debts and lack of capital for decades after.
- This theory argues that countries have developed at an uneven rate because wealthy countries have exploited poor countries in the past and today through foreign debt and foreign trade.
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- ., homes, stocks, bonds, savings and how many children you have) in addition to one's earning potential and accumulated debt.
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- Newly independent states borrowed money from the West in order to fund their own development, resulting in a new system of debt.
- For decades, this debt has been politically impossible for many countries to pay off and still exists.
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- Several centuries after the invention of cuneiform, the use of writing expanded beyond debt/payment certificates and inventory lists to be applied for the first time, about 2600 BC, to messages and mail delivery, history, legend, mathematics, and astronomical records.
- Ways to divide private property, when it is contended, amounts of interest on debt, rules as to property and monetary compensation concerning property damage or physical damage to a person, fines for 'wrong doing', and compensation in money for various infractions of formalized law were standardized for the first time in history.
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- That being said, the annual rates charged to clients were higher, because these rates included local inflation and the bad debt expenses of the microfinance institution.