Latin America and the world recession / edited by Esperanza Duran.

Contributors, vii -- Preface, ix -- 1. The Political Setting: 'business as usual' or a new departure? / David Stephen, 1 -- Part One. The global perspective -- 2. Latin America's financial crisis: causes and cures / Jonathan Hakim, 17 -- 3. A comparison of macroeconomic strategies in South America / John Williamson, 38 -- 4. Latin American and east Asian NICs: development strategies compared / Gustav Ranis and Louise Orrock, 48 -- Part Two. Case studies -- 5. Brazil's Foreign Debt: The National debate / Julian M. Chacel, 69 -- 6. Mexico: Learning to Live with the Crisis / George Philip, 81 -- 7. The rise and fall of the chilean economic miracle / Tim Congdon, 98 -- 8. Venezuela: the oil boom and the debt crisis / Ramón Escovar Salom, 120 -- 9. World recession and Central American depression: lessons from the 1930s for the 1980s / Victor Bulmer-Thomas, 130 -- 10. Conclusion / Esperanza Duran, 152 -- Índex, 157.