Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries

by Richard N. Cooper

Drawing on preliminary results from a massive study conducted by the World Bank to probe the links between stabilization and growth, Cooper examines the experience of developing countries faced by the oil shocks of the 1970s and the debt crisis of the 1980s. He points out that a global slowdown in growth has shifted the main economic concern in developing countries from long-term growth to stabilization and adjustment. Cooper takes into account the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000OR297Q
• ISBN13: 9780262031875
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher