Excessive Liquidity in Nicaragua´s Banks

The volume of total deposits accounted for 50% of GDP and becomes mostly government debt.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

El Nuevo Diario reports, "in that sense, the Central Bank managed not only to extract resources from the economy, but also strengthened the country's international reserves, while private financial institutions also bought government securities, instruments used to finance the nation´s deficit."

Government policies helped curb bank lending to the private sector and in return increased public sector financing.

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