TITLE

Don't bank on it

AUTHOR(S)

Cohen, G.

PUB. DATE

June 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;6/22/92, Vol. 112 Issue 24, p33

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that the London-based European Bank of Reconstruction and Development is running into strong criticism from some of the former East bloc countries it is supposed to be reconstructing. The charges against the bank by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, the former Polish prime minister and economist; What critics fault the bank for.

ACCESSION #

9206221084

 

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