Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance, Volume 1: The International Financial System

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Book Overview

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis, almost all the debtor countries were still unable to borrow in the international capital markets on normal terms. Moreover, the world financial system has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733327
• ISBN13: 9780226733326
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"