Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Global and Regional Issues -- 1 External Debt of Developing Countries in Late 1983 -- 2 The World Crisis and the Outlook for Latin America -- 3 The International Scene and the Latin American External Debt -- 4 External Debt Problems of Latin America -- 5 Coping with the Creeping Crisis of Debt -- 6 Latin American Debt: Act Two -- 7 Capital Market Financing to Developing Countries -- 8 The World Monetary System, the International Business Cycle, and the External Debt Crisis -- Part 2 Case Studies -- 9 Argentina's Foreign Debt: Its Origin and Consequences -- 10 Rescheduling Brazil's Foreign Debt: Recent Developments and Prospects -- 11 The Mexican External Debt: The Last Decade -- 12 The Renegotiation of Venezuela's Foreign Debt During 1982 and 1983 -- 13 The External Debt, Financial Liberalization, and Crisis in Chile -- 14 Peru and Its Private Bankers: Scenes from an Unhappy Marriage -- 15 The Role of External Debt Problems in Central America -- 16 Where Do We Go from Here? -- List of Acronyms -- About the Contributors -- Index -- About the Book and Editor.

Superficial observers of relations between the United States and the other American republics customarily deplore the decline of amity which has assertedly taken place since World War II and lay the blame to deficiencies in our diplomacy. Infrequently does one analyze the factors contributing to the high degree of cooperation that existed during the war itself. Only by such an analysis, it is submitted, can present practices of American policy be seen in their proper perspective. Answers in concrete terms should be suggested to the following specific questions: What did the United States seek from the other American republics? What techniques were employed to reach its objectives? To what extent were those objectives attained? Answers to these questions will help to clarify the place of Latin America in postwar United States policy.

THE PARADE OF FORMER MILITARY MEN GALLOPING INTO THE ARENA CONTINUED TO DOMINATE DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA DURING 1998. CIVILIANS ARE ALSO TAKING A FIRMER GRIP ON THE RUDDER OF THE SHIP OF STATE. RE-ELECTION HAS ALSO MADE STEADY PROGRESS. IN ADDITION, LATIN AMERICA BRACED ITSELF WITH RELATIVE SUCCESS FOR THE AFTERSHOCKS OF THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS. HOWEVER, LATIN AMERICA IS STILL STRUGGLING TO FIND SOME STABILITY WITHIN THE WHIRLPOOL UNLEASHED AT THE END OF THE COLD WAR. DEVELOPMENTS DURING 1998-99 GIVE CAUSE FOR BOTH HOPE AND CONCERN AS LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.

Why do Latin American countries exhibit stark differences in their ability to protect citizens from falling into poverty? Analysis of poverty levels measured by ECLAC in eighteen countries shows that political factors-including the democratic record, long-term weight of left-of-center parties in the legislature, and investment in human capital-are significant and substantively important determinants of poverty. These findings contribute to the growing literature that emphasizes the importance of regime form, parties, and policies for a variety of outcomes in Latin America, despite the weaknesses of democracy and the pathologies of some parties and party systems in the region.

"Ecuador's Social Movements, Electoral Politics, and Military Coups" published on by Oxford University Press.

Examines the evolution of postcolonial theories concerning Latin America, demonstrating the interaction of hegemony, power, discourse, & knowledge. The development of postcolonial discourse in the works of Homi Bhabha (1994), Gayatri Spivak (1994), Ranajid Guha (1988), & Edward Said (1978) is discussed. It is shown how these authors were critical of anticolonialist narratives of the 1970s & stressed the continued legacies of colonialism in modern systems, as evidenced by the Other. These legacies were found in First World academia by US thinkers such as John Beverley (eg, 1996) & Walter Mignolo (eg, 1996), who criticized the epistemological strategies of Latin American Studies programs, seen as denying the agency of subaltern subjects. This is demonstrated in an analysis of Beverley's & Mignolo's challenges to the dominant humanistic view of Latin American historiography & its expression in the canon of US universities. It is concluded that the instrumental view of knowledge expressed by Mignolo & others in subaltern studies weakens their usefulness in examining the persistence of colonialism in the modern era. T. Arnold