41.   When President Clinton meets Central American and Caribbean leaders later this week, he will find that some basic economic assumptions have changed.

42.   Will students in such schools be allowed to even question the basic assumptions of a free market economy?

43.   Yet, in many ways, the case has been an exploration of basic assumptions about what happened in Germany and Eastern Europe during the World War II era.

44.   Budgets and forecasts could be thrown out thewindow as basic assumptions change.

45.   Hence the need for re- evaluating fundamentals and basic assumptions in bank credit guidelines, as well as for reviewing policies and credit follow-up procedures.

46.   The crisis has also challenged the basic assumptions of the market economy, the role of hedge funds, speculators and indeed that of development and globalisation.