office buildings on the Continent, not always but sometimes, are to do with employment legislation – workers’ councils, employers’ rights, employees’ rights.
CD2 Track 18 Ex 6.5
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Nineteen eighty-two. None of the commercial banks gave any money to the developing world for the best part of ten years after the ‘82 debt crisis. They got such a bad fright by the debt crisis they more or less ceased lending to the developing world. So the only people who were lending money to governments in the developing world from 1982 onwards were other governments, other aid agencies and other multilateral agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.