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Chapter 14

Balance of Payments, Developing-Country Debt, and the Macroeconomic Stabilization Controversy

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The Balance of Payments Account

General considerations

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Table 14.1

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The Balance of Payments Account

General considerations A hypothetical illustration: deficits and debts

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Table 14.2

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Table 14.3

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Table 14.4

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Financing and Reducing Payments Deficits

Some initial policy issues Recent trends in LDC balance of payments

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Table 14.5

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The Debt Crisis of the 1980s

Background and analysis

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Third World Debt Crisis

dDFN

DrdrDdDBT )(

Net capital inflow, FN, is

Where d is percent increase in total debtD is total debtr is the average interest rate

Basic transfer, BT, is

(14.1)

(14.2)

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Third World Debt Crisis

Background and analysis Dimensions of the crisis

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Table 14.6

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Table 14.7

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Figure 14.1

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Attempts at Alleviation: Macroeconomic Instability, IMF Stabilization Policies, and Their Critics

The IMF stabilization program (see appendix 14.1 for an analysis of the IMF and the World Bank)

Tactics for debt relief Has the debt problem disappeared?

Winners and losers Conclusions

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Concepts for Review

Amortization Balance of payments Basic transfer Brady plan Capital account Capital flight Cash account Conditionality

Current account Debt-for-equity swaps Debt-for-nature swaps Debtors’ cartel Debt repudiation Debt service Deficit

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Concepts for Review (cont’d)

Euro External debt Hard currency International reserve

account International reserves IMF Macroeconomic

instability

Restructuring Special drawing rights

(SDRs) Stabilization policies Structural adjustment

loans Surplus World Bank

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