Looking like a classic external debt story
I was just sent this:
External debt (%of GDP)
| Asia 1997 | Total |
| Thailand | 62% |
| Malaysia | 52% |
| Indonesia | 42% |
| South Korea | 34% |
| Central/Eastern Europe | Today |
| Latvia | 135% |
| Estonia | 114% |
| Hungary | 102% |
| Croatia | 96% |
| Bulgaria | 90% |
| Ukraine | 53% |
| Poland | 47% |
| Romania | 43% |
| Czech | 40% |
| Lithuania | 40% |
| Turkey | 34% |
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