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Contents - The Global Credit Crunch and Foreign Banks' Lending to Emerging Markets: Why did Latin America Fare Better? Herman Kamil (IMF) and Kulwant Rai (University of Virginia) - The Latin American Development Problem Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto) - Dynamic Provisioning: Some Lessons from Existing Experiences Santiago Fernandez de Lis and Alicia Garcia-Herrero (BBVA) - On the Usefulness and Pitfalls of Development Accounting in Latin America Christian Daude (OECD Development Centre)