Globalizing in Hard Times (English, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz)

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In Globalizing in Hard Times , Leonardo Martinez-Diaz examines the sudden and substantial increase in cross-border ownership of commercial banks in countries where bank ownership had long been restricted by local rules. Many parties--the World Bank and the IMF, the world's largest commercial banks, their home governments, and their negotiators--had been pushing for a relaxation of ownership rules since the early 1980s and into the 1990s, when ban…

ISBN: 9780801447556