Overexposed: U.S. Banks Confront the Third World Debt Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367297541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Raul L. Madrid

Opis

Raúl Madrid's Overexposed represents the first in-depth study of the involvement of U.S. banks in the Third World debt crisis. Based on extensive interviews with commercial bankers, the book examines the decision-making process at U.S. banks that led to the lending boom of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Spis treści

Introduction -- An Early History of U.S. Banks in the Developing World -- Global Roots of the Lending Boom -- The Lending Motives of U.S. Banks -- Risk Considerations at U.S. Banks -- The Debt Crisis Erupts -- Banks and the Debt Rescheduling Process -- The Aims of U.S. Banks in the Wake of the Crisis -- Exiting the Third World Debt Crisis -- Appendix

O autorze

Raúl L. Madrid is currently a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. He was formerly a foreign affairs analyst with the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of which he wrote Overexposed. Madrid is coauthor of U.S. Arms Exports: Policies and Contractors, a book on U.S. arms transfer policy, and he has written numerous articles and reports on related foreign policy issues.