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In the 1980s, Latin America experienced the worst economic crisis since the world-wide depression of the 1930s. A common link running through this crisis was external indebtedness to the international private banking system.
Coauthored with Robert Devlin. First published in Gerry Helleiner et al (eds), Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy, Macmillan, London, 1995.
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Ffrench-Davis, R. (2000). The great Latin American debt crisis: a decade of asymmetric adjustment. In: Reforming the Reforms in Latin America. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04681-9_4
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