The Sword of Damocles
Subtitle: The IMF, the World Bank, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Colombia and Chile, 1950-1970
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: July 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780275974053
Subjects: International economics; International relations; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Business & Economics; History - General History; Business/Economics; Chile; Colombia; USA; Banks & Banking; Government - U.S. Government; Latin America - South America; History / Latin America; Economic History; Government - Comparative; 20th century; Debts, External; History; International Monetary Fund
First sentence: Latin America has suffered five debt crises since the Wars of Independence and has been struggling in vain to achieve autonomous development against the context of globalism in the last two centuries.