1st Edition
Politics And Economics Of External Debt Crisis The Latin American Experience
Since 1981 Latin America has been in the midst of a protracted external debt crisis due, among other reasons, to emergency borrowing at record-high real interest rates and the decline in the region's export proceeds. Until now, most literature on the subject originated in industrial lender countries, whose primary concern is the impact of the debt
Biography
Miguel S. Wionczek is a senior fellow and the head of the long-term energy research program at El Colegio de Mexico. He is coeditor of Energy in the Transition from Rural Subsistence (with Gerald Foley and Ariane van Buren; Westview, 1982) and Mexico's Energy Resources: Toward a Policy of Diversification (with Ragaei El Mallakh; Westview, 1985). Luciano Tomassini is director of the Program for Joint Studies on Latin American International Relations (RIAL) in Santiago, Chile.