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In 1982-83 it suffered a slump, induced by debt and wild insider lending by private banks problems much like those afflicting some East Asian countries today.
And banks that survive by speculating in currency markets during bouts of high inflation often come unstuck when prices fall back to earth and they have to return to more conventional ways of earning a crust.The second main culprit, connected (or insider) lending, has ravaged banks from Bolivia to Bangladesh.
In total, close to $1 billion is missing, thanks to a binge of interest-free and mostly illegal insider lending to shareholders, including one of Mr Karzai's brothers.The spiriting away of such sums is a huge blow in a land with an official GDP of just $12 billion a year.
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