The debt crisis: Lessons of the 1980s for the 1990s

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-24

  Kaminsky, Graciela L ^a   Pereira, Alfredo ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT CRISIS; DEBT SERVICING; DEVELOPING REGION; ECONOMIC DECLINE;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0030437664     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(96)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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