Dealing with debt
Subtitle: international financial negotiations and adjustment bargaining
By: edited by Thomas J. Biersteker
Series: Case studies in international affairs; Case studies in international affairs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780429034206
Subjects: Debt relief; Foreign Loans; Case studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Public Finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining: An Overview; A Global Debt Regime; One Regime, Many Adjustments; Bases of Debtor Bargaining Power; Reform Without Relief; Cases on International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining; Notes; PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL ACTORS; 2 The International Monetary Fund; Sources of Funds; Uses of Funds; Conditionality; Problems and Criticisms; Notes; 3 The World Bank; Sources of Funds; Lending Policy; Controversies; Notes; title: 4 The Creditor Clubs: Paris and LondonThe Paris Club-Background; Characteristics of Paris Club Reschedulings; A Typical Paris Club Rescheduling Scenario; Paris Club Rescheduling Terms; The London Club-A Parallel Framework; Notes; PART TWO: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS; 5 Mexico, 1982: Paving the Way with Exceptions; The International Financial Climate; The Path to Mexico's Crisis; The Washington Weekend: Prelude to the Global Debt Regime; Consolidating the Weekend Agreements: The BIS, the IMF, and the Commercial Banks; Appendix: The Mexican Political Scene; title: Notes6 Restructuring Zaire's Debt, 1979-1982; The Political Economy of Zaire's Debt Crisis; Key Actors; The Debt Game; London Club: Round One; The Paris Club; The IMF Agreement: Getting Back on Track; London Club: Round Two; The IMF and ""the Good 1980,; Epilogue; Notes; 7 Nigeria, 1983-1986: Reaching Agreement with the Fund; Round One: Nigeria Approaches the Fund; Round Two: Stabilization Without the Fund (January 1984-August 1985); Round Three: From Stabilization to Adjustment (August 1985-December 1986); Notes; 8 The Philippines, 1983-1986: Negotiating Under Uncertainty; The Marcos Period; title: Debt Negotiations Under MarcosDebt Negotiations Under Aquino; Epilogue; Notes; 9 Brazil, 1985-1987: Pursuing Heterodoxy to a Moratorium; The Birth of the ""New Republic, ; The Road to the Cruzado Plan; The Cruzado Era; Beyond the Cruzado Plan: Moratorium; Postscript; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; About the Contributors; About the Book