Debt Disaster? : : Banks, Government and Multilaterals Confront the Crisis / / John F. Weeks.
Written for the nontechnical reader and intended to intervene in the policy debate, Debt Disaster? offers informative analysis, controversial assessments, and concrete solutions to bring a close the bleakest period for the Third World since the end of World War II. Out of this volume comes a clear m...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1989] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 1989 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement Series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I DEBT CRISIS IN THE THIRD WORLD
- Chapter 1 The Outlook for Development
- Chapter 2 External Shocks, Adjustment, and Income Distribution
- Chapter 3 Losers Pay Reparations, Or How the Third World Lost the Lending War
- PART II THE DEBT CRISIS AND COMMERCIAL BANKS
- Chapter 4 Background to the Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment in the Financial Markets
- Chapter 5 Safe Passage Through Dire Straits: Managing an Orderly Exit from the Debt Crisis
- PART III STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: SOLUTION OR PART OF THE PROBLEM
- Chapter 6 World Bank-Supported Adjustment Programs
- Chapter 7 Assessing Structural Adjustment Programs: A Summary of Country Experience
- Chapter 8 Undervaluation, Adjustment, and Growth
- Chapter 9 Old Wine in New Bottles: Policy-Based Lending in the 1980s
- PART IV STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: IMPACT IN THE THIRD WORLD
- Chapter 10 Social Costs of Adjustment in Latin America
- Chapter 11 Political Change and Economic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1988
- Chapter 12 The Demise of the Labor Aristocracy in Africa: Structural Adjustment in Tanzania
- PART V SEEKING A SOLUTION
- Chapter 13 Facing the Realities of the Debt Crisis
- Chapter 14 From Adjustment with Recession to Adjustment with Growth
- Chapter 15 From Adjustment and Restructuring to Development
- Chapter 16 Is to Forgive the Debt Divine?
- Chapter 17 Foreign Lending at the Brink
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
- About the Editor