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Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries

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Money, Trade, and Competition

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Abstract

Egon Sohmen had an abiding faith in, and an uncompromising dedication to, free markets. While he devoted his life’s work to the application of the liberal credo to developed countries, it also has relevance to developing countries. This is shown in the present paper, which examines the need for financial liberalization in these countries.

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The author is indebted to Yoon Se Cho, Maxwell Fry, Alan Gelb, and Jacques Polak for helpful comments. He alone is responsible, however, for the contents of the paper, which should not be interpreted to reflect the views of the World Bank.

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Balassa, B. (1992). Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries. In: Giersch, H. (eds) Money, Trade, and Competition. A Publication of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77267-2_7

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