International finance and Latin America. Volume 36 / Stephany Griffith-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith-Jones, Stephany, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Development.

Routledge Library Editions: Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Latin America.

Economic assistance.

Debts, External--Latin America.

Debts, External.

Loans, Foreign--Latin America.

Loans, Foreign.

International finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 o

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Dedication; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part One: The General Context; 1. Introduction; 2. A Theoretical Framework; Part Two: 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 InstitutionsPart Three: Final Remarks; 9. Conclusions and Some Policy Proposals; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2014).

ISBN:

1-136-87808-4

0-203-83850-5

9780203838501

OCLC:

892238925