1st Edition

International Finance and Latin America

By Stephany Griffith-Jones Copyright 1984
136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Stephany Griffith-Jones