Is Tooling Up, " which appeared in the 11 July Washington Post: "The U.S. decision not to oppose multilateral loans to Hanoi will make even more credit available to the government although, thanks to the embargo, U.S. firms will not get any of the resulting business.

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And the drumming of fingers by the American government over the 500-odd property claims from ex-owners, mostly Nicaraguans, resident in the United States had become a deafening throb, accompanied by warnings that the Americans would suspend aid and block multilateral loans unless things were sorted out.

ECONOMIST: Nicaragua

After all, unlike its new Russian partner, the consortium needed to secure loans from multilateral institutions and was sensitive to bad publicity.

ECONOMIST: Russian energy

Level the economic and financial playing field between Warsaw Pact countries and Latin American debtor nations so that potential adversaries cease to enjoy continued, preferential treatment (such as Western government-guaranteed credits, more favorable terms and conditions on loans and multilateral economic conferences) vis a vis that available to fledgling democracies in this hemisphere.

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Islamabad is dependent on loans and aid from multilateral agencies where Washington carries great weight.

CNN: Delicate Diplomacy

Official credits - including those extended by multilateral institutions like the IMF - were similarly configured as general purpose loans with no non-economic conditionality such as geopolitical behavior and more specific security-related concerns.

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