Sentence examples for a net creditor from inspiring English sources

(The opposite is true for Japan, a net creditor).

The euro area, unlike America, is a net creditor.

This makes Africa a net creditor to the world.

Russia became a net creditor at the end of 2004 (helped in part by high oil prices).

If America is still coming out ahead of foreigners, then, contrary to popular belief, it must still be a net creditor.

One big difference is that in the 1960s the United States ran a current-account surplus and was a net creditor to the rest of the world.

It has maintained its enviable status as a net-creditor throughout.

The joint report from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a US research organisation, says the continent has been a long-term net creditor to the rest of the world.

The French economist Thomas Piketty, an expert on inequality who helps compile the World Top Incomes Database, says research by his colleagues has shown that "the wealth held in tax havens is probably sufficiently substantial to turn Europe into a very large net creditor with respect to the rest of the world".

Second, in the 1980s America was still a net foreign creditor.

Net foreign debt is now less than 10% of GDP, and Fitch, a ratings agency, believes Indonesia's government might become a net foreign creditor by the end of next year.That is one reason why the agency raised the country's sovereign credit rating in December; Moody's followed a month later.