International Finance and Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780415845243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 132 str.

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Opis

This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development . The book describes how, in each of the first three decades since the war, a new agency emerged (foreign investors in the 1950s, official aid agencies in the 1960s and multinational banks in the 1970s) which was willing to play a dynamic role in generating new financial flows to the region. The lack of such an agent in the 1980s, combined with a reluctance on the part of former investors to maintain their level of assistance culminated in an economic debt crisis in Latin America which this work seeks to address, asking the crucial question: what measures should be taken - both nationally and internationally - to deal with this critical issue , in a way that will both encourage Latin American Development and avoid a major international financial crisis?

Spis treści

Part I: The General Context  1. Introduction  2. A Theoretical Framework  Part II: Financial Flows to Latin America  3. The Fifties and Foreign Direct Investment  4. The Sixties and Official Aid  5. The Seventies and Multinational Banks  6. The Role of the International Monetary Fund  7. Effects of Changes in the Magnitude and Composition of Financial Flows on National Development  8. The Early Eighties: Rescheduling and the Increasing Role of Official Institutions  Part III: Final Remarks  9. Some Conclusions and Some Policy Proposals

O autorze

Stephany Griffith-Jones