External debt: Brazil and the international financial crisis
Ch. 1. E(x)ternal Debt: Understanding Brazil's Debt Crisis -- What is External Debt? -- Is External Debt a Motherless Child? -- How Do You Pay External Debt? -- Who Do You Pay External Debt To? -- Who Pays External Debt? -- How did External Debt Begin? -- 'We did not Get into Debt, They Got Us into Debt!' -- 'We did not Develop, We Under-Developed!' -- Capital Takes All, Social Spending Gets the Crumbs -- A Good Budget Makes for Good Planning -- The FHC-IMF Agreement: And the Government Promised not to Govern with Packages ... -- Cancel Unpayable Debts -- Ch. 2. Trojan Horse: Brazil and the International Financial Crisis -- The Real's Three-Legged Prop Starts to Fall Apart -- Brazil and the IMF (International Misery and Famine) -- Are There Ways Out? -- Ch. 3. Neo-liberal Adjustment and Globalization: A Southern Perspective -- The Historical Roots of the Adjustment Project -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Recipe -- Adjusting to Competitive Globalization -- Economic and Social Impacts -- Opportunities and Challenges -- Ch. 4. For a Debt-Free Millennium -- The Burden of Unpayable and Unsustainable Debt -- The Movements -- Partial Successes: Official Relief -- Alternatives, from Society's Point of View -- Brazil Jubilee 2000 Campaign -- Proposals being Discussed -- App. 1. Debt Glossary -- App. 2. Alternative Debt Policies being Discussed by Jubilee 2000 -- Japan -- App. 3. The Jubilee South Summit in Johannesburg