Painful decisions will have to be made to revitalize banks, restructure industries and resurrect currencies.

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Who else, it asks, will make long-term loans to municipalities (and goad them to privatise services) or help restructure industries such as mining and railways?

ECONOMIST: The EBRD

Earlier this month, he told a conference of black managers that the government must restructure state industries more quickly.

ECONOMIST: Face value