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by Peter Rutland THE BANKING SYSTEM WAS AMONG THE least developed features of the socialist economies that collapsed between 1989 and 1991. In the old system, the financial sector was dominated by a small number of state-owned banks, each with a monopoly over a certain area of financial activity. A single state bank handled the […]