Latin America at the Crossroads: Debt, Development, and the Future

by Howard J. Wiarda

Overview

A provocative and controversial look at Latin America as it stands at a crossroads, this book analyzes the complex economic and social roots of the debt crisis and evaluates the prospects for new development strategies for the 1990s. Dr. Wiarda begins by placing the regional economic crisis in the larger context of technological change, political upheaval, and the international economy. He then explores new choices and realities in inter-American relations and the role international lending agencies can take to assist Latin America in meeting the challenge of the next decade. The author suggests that "smokescreens and mirrors" have obscured the true nature of the crisis and, as a result, have skewed the policy debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429718182
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	130
File size:	680 KB

About the Author

Wiarda, Howard J.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The Exhaustion of Latin America's Development Models 1 2 Latin America's Economic Crisis: Origins and Dimensions 3 The Great Debt Crisis, 4 Social and Political Consequences, 5 New Realities 6 The Role of the International Lending Agencies.