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It would bear on debates about how developing countries should manage public borrowing from abroad.","findings":["Debt accumulation appears to affect growth mainly through capital accumulation growth, with only limited evidence for a link between external debt and total factor productivity growth.","Results for private savings rates are mixed, and no support is found for an inverted-U relationship between external debt and growth.","For industrial countries, no significant relationship is found between gross government debt and economic growth."],"terms":[{"term":"total external debt","means":"All the money a country's government and private sector owe to lenders outside the country."},{"term":"public external debt","means":"Money owed to foreign lenders by a country's government or by bodies the government stands behind."},{"term":"private external debt","means":"Money owed to foreign lenders by firms and individuals rather than by the government."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-14T05:01:52.184Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-14T05:01:52.184Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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