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List of contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Global and Regional Issues -- External Debt of Developing Countries in Late 1983 -- The World Crisis and the Outlook for Latin America -- The International Scene and the Latin American External Debt -- External Debt Problems of Latin America -- Coping with the Creeping Crisis of Debt -- Latin American Debt: Act Two -- Capital Market Financing to Developing Countries -- The World Monetary System, the International Business Cycle, and the External Debt Crisis -- Case Studies -- Argentina's Foreign Debt: Its Origin and Consequences -- Rescheduling Brazil's Foreign Debt: Recent Developments and Prospects -- The Mexican External Debt: The Last Decade -- The Renegotiation of Venezuela's Foreign Debt During 1982 and 1983 -- The External Debt, Financial Liberalization, and Crisis in Chile -- Peru and Its Private Bankers: Scenes from an Unhappy Marriage -- The Role of External Debt Problems in Central America -- Where Do We Go from Here?
About the author
Miguel S. Wionczek is a senior fellow and the head of the long-term energy research program at El Colegio de Mexico. He is coeditor of Energy in the Transition from Rural Subsistence (with Gerald Foley and Ariane van Buren; Westview, 1982) and Mexico's Energy Resources: Toward a Policy of Diversification (with Ragaei El Mallakh; Westview, 1985). Luciano Tomassini is director of the Program for Joint Studies on Latin American International Relations (RIAL) in Santiago, Chile.
Summary
Politics and Economics of External Debt Crisis is written by Latin experts and presents the Latin American external debt crisis and difficulties from the viewpoint of the borrowers, rather than the industrial lender countries as discussed by most literature on the subject until this point.
