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Latin American debt today and German reparations after world war I — A comparison

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Webb, S.B. Latin American debt today and German reparations after world war I — A comparison. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 124, 745–774 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02707775

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