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The Political Economy of the Latin American Debt Crisis

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DEBT-EQUITY SWAPS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN LATIN AMERICA. By BERGSMAN JOEL and EDISIS WAYNE. (Washington D.C: World Bank, 1988. Pp. 34. $5.00 paper.)

LA CRISIS DE LA DEUDA LATINOAMERICA FRENTE A LOS PRECEDENTES HISTORICOS. By BIGGS GONZALO. (Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1987 Pp. 192.)

LOST PROMISES: DEBT, AUSTERITY, AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA. By CANAK WILLIAM L. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. 244. $3700 cloth, $16.00 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Stephen S. Golub*
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College
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Copyright © 1991 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

I would like to thank John Caskey, Jonathan Conning, and Stephen Haber for thoughtful comments. This essay was completed while I was visiting Yale University.

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