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Waiting for the Barbarians: Managing the Globalization of Banking in Developing Countries
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Leonardo Martinez‐Diaz
Oxford Univeristy
August 7, 2006
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In 2005‐06, I conducted over sixty interviews, in person, by telephone, and by correspondence,
with key informants in Mexico City, São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Washington,
DC, and Oxford. The list of interview subjects, which included central bankers, bank regulators,
lobbyists, trade negotiators, private bankers, legislators, IMF and World Bank officials,
academics, and journalists, was generated through the process‐tracing exercise, which allowed
me to identify major participants at each step in the policymaking process. Where informants
were not available, I resorted to interviewing their close associates and journalists covering the
issue.
The interviews were used to complement, rather than replace, the documentary record.
However, in places where essentail documents do not exist or remain classified, more weight
has been placed on the interview data. Because this topic remains politically sensitive in all
three countries, informants were given the option of confidentiality to encourage transparency.
Triangulation was also used, whereby the information provided by one informant was used to
confirm, reject, or probe further the statements of a second informant. Official documents in the
public domain and accounts from the Spanish‐, English‐, Portuguese‐, and Indonesian‐language
press facilitated the reconstruction of the policymaking process for which there was no publicly‐
available documentation. Press accounts were also useful to prevent policymakers from
retroactively distorting the record.
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Leonardo Martinez‐Diaz
Oxford Univeristy
August 7, 2006
38
In 2005‐06, I conducted over sixty interviews, in person, by telephone, and by correspondence,
with key informants in Mexico City, São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Washington,
DC, and Oxford. The list of interview subjects, which included central bankers, bank regulators,
lobbyists, trade negotiators, private bankers, legislators, IMF and World Bank officials,
academics, and journalists, was generated through the process‐tracing exercise, which allowed
me to identify major participants at each step in the policymaking process. Where informants
were not available, I resorted to interviewing their close associates and journalists covering the
issue.
The interviews were used to complement, rather than replace, the documentary record.
However, in places where essentail documents do not exist or remain classified, more weight
has been placed on the interview data. Because this topic remains politically sensitive in all
three countries, informants were given the option of confidentiality to encourage transparency.
Triangulation was also used, whereby the information provided by one informant was used to
confirm, reject, or probe further the statements of a second informant. Official documents in the
public domain and accounts from the Spanish‐, English‐, Portuguese‐, and Indonesian‐language
press facilitated the reconstruction of the policymaking process for which there was no publicly‐
available documentation. Press accounts were also useful to prevent policymakers from
retroactively distorting the record.
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