Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance, 2 : Country Studies--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico. Jeffrey D. Sachs

By:

SACHS, Jeffrey D

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.Description: 578 pSubject(s):

Debts, External

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Contents:

Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Book I Debt and Macroeconomic Instability in Argentina; Book II Bolivia's Economic Crisis; Book III The Macroeconomics of the Brazilian External Debt; Book IV Economic Policy and Foreign Debt in Mexico; Biographies; List of Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.

Summary: For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis, almost all the debtor countries were still unable to borrow in the international capital markets on normal terms. Moreover, the world financial system has been disrupted by the prospect of widespread defaults on those debts. Because of the urgency of the present crisis, and because similar crises have r.

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For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis, almost all the debtor countries were still unable to borrow in the international capital markets on normal terms. Moreover, the world financial system has been disrupted by the prospect of widespread defaults on those debts. Because of the urgency of the present crisis, and because similar crises have r.

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