Two-Thirds of the Commercial Transactions in Russia Involve Nonmonetary Forms

question 194

Multiple Choice

Two-thirds of the commercial transactions in Russia involve nonmonetary forms of payment due to limits in formal operating procedures among financial institutions and even limits on the notion of private property there. These would best be described as constraints in the country's

• A) capital infrastructure.
• B) political infrastructure.
• C) economic infrastructure.
• D) geopolitical system.
• E) financial exchange system.

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