Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance, Volume 2

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Preface
Introduction by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Book I - Debt and Macroeconomic Instability in Argentina
Rudiger Dornbusch and Juan Carlos de Pablo
1. An Overview of Debt and Macroeconomic Problems
2. Some Debt History
3. From Martinez de Hoz to Alfonsín
4. The Process of High Inflation
5. The Austral Plan
6. Avenues and Obstacles to Growth
Appendix A. Price Dynamics Under a Tablita Regime
Appendix B. The Budget and Inflation
Appendix C. Statistical Data
Notes
References
Book II - Bolivia's Economic Crisis
Juan Antonio Morales and Jeffrey D. Sachs
1. An Overview of Macroeconomics Performance
2. Political Economy and Macroeconomics Policymaking, 1952-87
3. State Capitalism and the Operation of the Public Sector
4. Trade Policies, 1970-85
5. Aspects of Foreign Debt Accumulation, 1952-85
6. The Emergence of Hyperinflation, 1982-85
7. Ending the Hyperinflation, 1985-88
8. Bolivian Debt Management, 1985-88
9. Beyond Stabilization to Economic Growth and Development
Notes
References
Book III - The Macroeconomics of the Brazilian External Debt
Eliana A. Cardoso and Albert Fishlow
1. Introduction
2. Adjustment to the First Oil Shock: From Import Substitution to Macroeconomic Restraint
3. Adjustment in the 1980s: From International Monetarism to the Plano Cruzado
4. Stopping Inflation
5. External Debt, Budget Deficits, and Inflation
6. Trade Policies and Consequences
7. Epilogue: Debt and Development
Appendix: Brazilian Statistics
Notes
References
Book IV - Economic Policy and Foreign Debt in Mexico
Edward F. Buffie
1. Introduction
2. The Record of Stabilizing Development
3. Shared Development and the Echeverría Administration
4. The Lopez Portillo Administration
5. The De La Madrid Administration and the Present Crisis
6. Import Compression, Real Wages, and Underemployment
7. Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Financial Intermediation, Inflation, and Growth
8. Debt Management and Negotiations
with Allen Sangines
9. Future Prospects: Is There A Way Out?
Notes
References
Biographies
List of Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index