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Economic Development and World Debt

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. H. W. Singer

    1. University of Sussex, UK
      Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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  2. Soumitra Sharma

    1. University of Zagreb, Croatia

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Structural Adjustment Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Debt, Adjustment and Development

      • Gustav Ranis
      Pages 227-238

    3. Food Aid and Structural Adjustment Lending

      • H. W. Singer
      Pages 239-244

    4. World Debt, Financing, Structural Adjustment and the Official Sector

      • Graham Bird
      Pages 245-259

    5. The Economic Adjustment Process in Latin America: a Conceptual Evaluation

      • Federico Rubli-Kaiser
      Pages 261-276

    6. A Perfect Foresight Model of Economic Growth, Inflation and the Balance of International Indebtedness

      • Milton Pappas
      Pages 277-295

    7. Structural Adjustment and Exchange Rate Policy in Yugoslavia

      • Gorazd Nikić
      Pages 297-307

    8. Britain’s Debt Relief Programme

      • George C. Abbott
      Pages 309-319

    9. The Adjustment Programme and the Perverse Effects of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Charles Perrings
      Pages 321-334

  2. Country Risk and Debt Management Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335
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    2. Country Risk Management: How to Juggle With Your Arms in a Straitjacket?

      • Harold Cataquet
      Pages 337-354

    3. The US as the World’s No. 1 Foreign Debtor: Causes and Consequences

      • Jacob Cohen
      Pages 355-367

    4. Mexico: Anatomy of a Debt Crisis

      • Menachem Katz
      Pages 369-382

    5. Debt Repayment Capacity in Argentina and Uruguay

      • Renato Aguilar, Mario Zejan
      Pages 383-395

    6. Brazilian Experience with External Debt and Prospects for Growth

      • Fernando Holanda de Barbosa, Manuel Sanchez de la Cal
      Pages 397-412

    7. A Comparative Study of the Economic Development and Debt Problem of Asian and Latin American NICs

      • Kiyoshi Abe
      Pages 413-421

    8. Is India Overborrowed?

      • Pari Kasliwal
      Pages 423-435

    9. The Debt Problem of Eastern and Southern Africa

      • S. O. Kwasa
      Pages 437-443

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 445-453
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About this book

The papers presented here were first given at the International Conference of Economists at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia. The book contains a rare selection of divergent theoretical and practical views on the acute problem of international debt and its repercussions on world economic growth at large and the developing countries in particular.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    H. W. Singer

  • Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    H. W. Singer

  • University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Soumitra Sharma

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