Usually means: Excessive debt inhibits new investment.
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  1. debt overhang: Dictionary.com
  2. Debt overhang: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. debt overhang, Debt overhang: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Debt overhang: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Debt Overhang: Investopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Debt overhang)

noun:  the condition of an organization (for example, a business, government, or family) that has existing debt so great that it cannot easily borrow more money, even when that new borrowing is actually a good investment that would more than pay for itself.


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