* The documentation includes the statement of the US Secretary of the Treasury at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting; his statement of October 22, 1985, before the US House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (p. 421); a report of that Committee's Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance, entitled “Dealing with Debt, Rekindling Development: The U.S. Stake in the Performance of the World's Development Banks” (p. 428); the Group of 24 communique on international monetary affairs (p. 450); a World Bank report entitled “Development and Debt Service: Dilemma of the 1980s” (p. 454); and the monitoring procedures included in the restructuring agreements pertaining to the public sector debt of Venezuela signed in New York on February 26, 1986 (p. 477).

1 President de la Madrid at Mexican Bankers Association Annual Meeting, July 22, 1993.

2 President Sarncy in a televised address to the nation, July 23, 1985.

1 Thrjt estimate, first articulated by experts from the Wharton School, has been accepted by the.Joint Economic Committee. The Commerce Department assumes the loss of some 25,000 jobs for overy one billion dollars of lost U.S. exports

2 World Development Report 1984, The World Bank, July 1984.

3 World Debt Tables, External Debt of Developing Countries, 1984-85. The World Bank, p. ix-x.

4 “African Agriculture and African Debt”, Overseas Development Council, June 25, 1985.

5 The Economist, “Even the IMF Has A Few Bad Debts”, June 8, 1985, p. 63.

6 World Development Report 1985, The World Bank, p 9.