VOL. XXXII

NO. 52

3-OCTOBER-1988

Financial and Banking News

INTERNATIONAL BANKING

Japanese Debt Proposals Dominate IMF/World Bank Talks

The annual IMF/World Bank meetings held in West Berlin last week might havefocused attention on the plight of countries in arrears and served as alaunching pad for a major increase in the resources of the two internationalfinancial institutions. Instead, the meetings were dominated by proposals fromTokyo - dubbed by Japanese officials as the 'Miyazawa initiative'...