Debt and the Less Developed Countries

Introduction -- The Expansion of External Debt within the Less Developed Countries -- Introduction -- Debt and Default in the International Political Economy -- International Public Lending and American Policy -- Private Overseas Lending: Too Far, Too Fast? -- Financial Interrelations, the Balance of Payments, and the Dollar Crisis -- Debt and Development -- Introduction -- Bankers as Revolutionaries in the Process of Development -- Debt, Indenture, and Development -- Brazil’s Debt-Burdened Recession: Consequences of Short-Term Difficulties or of Structures of Production and Consumption? -- Political Economy of International Debt: The Dynamics of Financial Capital -- The Politics of International Debt Renegotiations -- Introduction -- Peru and the U.S. Banks: Privatization of Financial Relations -- The Politics of Debt Relief: Official Creditors and Brazil, Ghana, and Chile -- The Politics of Private Bank Lending and Debt Renegotiations -- The IMF, Commercial Banks, and Third World Debts