Research Catalog

Title

The poverty of nations : a guide to the debt crisis from Argentina to Zaire / edited by Elmar Altvater ... [et al.] ; translated by Terry Bond.

Publication

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1991.

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Additional Authors

Altvater, Elmar

Description

282 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Presents a series of case studies, illustrating the development of the international indebtedness crisis, primarily between 1978 and 1986.

Uniform Title

Armut der Nationen. English

Subject

• International Monetary Fund > Developing countries > Case studies
• Debts, External > Developing countries > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Note

• Translation of: Die Armut der Nationen.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The causes and course of the international debt crisis / Elmar Altvater, Kurt Hübner -- The management of international monetary and financial relations during the crisis / Manfred Nitsch -- The changing roles of the IMF and the World Bank / Tatjana Chahoud -- The role of the USA in the international debt crisis / Claudia Dziobek -- West Germany in the international debt crisis / Alex Schubert -- A shift in the balance of power from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin / Ulrich Menzel -- The developing nations and the international division of labour / Folker Fröbel ; Jürgen Heinrichs, Otto Kreye -- Mineral substances on the world market / Dorothea Mezger -- Agricultural raw materials on the world market / Gerd Junne -- The debate on development policy / Wolfgang Hein, Theo Mutter -- Is there a way out of the crisis for the indebted capitalist world? / Thomas Hurtienne -- Argentina : the bitter legacy of the "sweet money" / Gabriela Simon.
• Brazil : the giant's debts / Elmar Altvater -- Central America : the role of external debt in a geopolitically disputed region / Eugenio Rivera Urrutia -- LLDCs (least developed countries) : the fourth world in the debt trap / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Mexico : five years of debt crisis / Raúl Rojas -- The Philippines : the IMF's intractable regular / Niña Boschmann -- Poland : out of the crisis with violence and reform / Friedhelm Wachs -- Portugal : indebtedness on the European periphery / Claudia Preusser -- South Africa : apartheid and international indebtedness / Gerd Junne -- Yugoslavia : the "socialist market economy" and the debt crisis / Hansgeorg Conert -- Zaire : indebtedness and kleptocracy / Peter Körner.

ISBN

• 0862329485 (Hb)
• 0862329493 (Pb)

LCCN

^^^90046692^

OCLC

• 22386950
• SCSB-12475424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library