Sentences with phrase «financial repression exceeded»

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China's huge portfolio of NPLs at the end of the 1990s (perhaps as much as 40 % of total loans) was resolved by a decade of severe financial repression, so that lending rates of around 7 % — in an economy in which GDP grew nominally by 18 - 20 % and the GDP deflator usually exceed 8 % — implied substantial debt forgiveness.