Ostrich strategy

For other uses, see ostrich (disambiguation).

The ostrich strategy is a term used by economists when referring to rescheduling of bad debt in the wake of a bank's rise of bad debt provision.

This comes from the supposed habit of ostriches hiding when faced with attack by predators.

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