Proposed Decision to Modify the New Arrangements to Borrow.

This paper examines cross-country perspectives on economies with large banking systems relative to GDP. As such economies tend to have domestic institutions with major foreign currency cross-border activities, strong links are generated between the health of the financial system and sovereign sustai...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:Policy Papers; Policy Paper ; No. 2010/029
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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