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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 with the international private banking system.
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Devlin, R., Ffrench-Davis, R. (1995). The Great Latin American Debt Crisis: Ten Years of Asymmetric Adjustment. In: Helleiner, G., Abrahamian, S., Bacha, E., Lawrence, R., Malan, P. (eds) Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13658-2_3
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