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The Financial Experience of Lenders and Investors

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If you find any Island or maine land populous, and that the people hath no need of cloth then you are to devise what com-modities they have to purchase the same withall.

The help of Badri Rao and Dina Driva in assembling much of the material used in this paper is gratefully acknowledged. The paper as presented here is a revised version of the paper originally presented to the Conference. The revisions of the text are minor; some of the appended tables have been brought up-to-date.

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Kamarck, A.M. (1967). The Financial Experience of Lenders and Investors. In: Adler, J.H. (eds) Capital Movements and Economic Development. International Economic Association Conference Volumes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15238-4_3

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