Bank Lending to Warsaw Pact Nations: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One-hundredth Congress, Second Session, September 22, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 385 pages |
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allies American ASSETS bancaires liés bank and trade-related bank lending bankers BIS-area banks Bulgaria capital markets Chairman GARCIA creditors current account Czechoslovakia DATA DATA DATA QUARTERLY DATA decline deficit domestic East Bloc East Germany East-West Eastern bloc Eastern Europe emigration enterprises exchange rate Exchange-Rate exchange-rate valuation adjustment export credits External bank claims German glasnost global Gorbachev grain gross debt guaranteed hard currency hard-currency Helsinki accords human rights Hungary imports increase indebtedness industrial institutions interest International Finance investment issue joint ventures LDCs leverage liabilities LIBOR millions de dollars Moscow national security OECD official opérations commerciales pays déclarants percent perestroika Poland political production QUARTERLY DATA QUARTERLY reform relations reporting banks reporting countries Romania Soviet Bloc Soviet Jews Soviet Union surplus TABLEAU taux de change Total a)+(c trade balance trade-related non-bank claims U.S. banks United untied loans USSR Vneshekonombank Warsaw Pact West Western banks
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