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  "title": "A New Database of Financial Reforms",
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    "Authors: Enrica Detragiache, Abdul d Abiad, Thierry Tressel",
    "Published: December 1, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451871241.001",
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