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100			_aRatha, Dilip
245			_aDid BIS regulations shorten debt maturity in developing countries?
260			_c2002
300			_ap.1421-424.
362			_a13 Apr
520			_aThe Bank for International Settlement's 1998 Capital Accord recommends a smaller risk weight for short-term exposures to developing countries than for exposures with more than one year maturity. This paper shows that such differential treatment of risk may have been one of the factors behind the rapid growth of short-term banking debt to developing countries in the 1990s, believed to be one of the major causes of the financial crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil. - Reproduced.
650			_a Debts - Developing countries
650			_aBanks - Developing countries
650			_aBanks
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a52096
999			_c52096 _d52096