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Matthew I. Saal, Carl-Johan Lindgren, and G. G. Garcia Bank Soundness and Macroeconomic Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed 12/8/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557755995.071

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Summary

Banking sector problems have plagued over 130 of the IMF's member countries since 1980. Developing and industrial market economies alike have been affected, as have all the economies in transition. This volume, by Carl-Johan Lindgren, Gillian Garcia, and Matthew I. Saal, discusses the linkages between macroeconomic policy and bank soundness. It takes a global view of the causes and consequences of banking sector problems and discussses how the banking system can be strengthened, nationally and internationally.

Subject: Bank soundness, Banking, Capital adequacy requirements, Commercial banks, Credit, Deposit insurance, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Money, Nonperforming loans, State-owned banks

Keywords: bank, bank assets, bank portfolio, Bank soundness, BOOK, Central and Eastern Europe, Commercial banks, Credit, design, East Africa, Eastern Europe, flexibility, Global, Loans, Middle East, Nonperforming loans, part IV conclusion, Policy design, Policy flexibility, policy instrument mix, sound banking system, State-owned banks, Western Hemisphere