Debt and Development Crises in Latin America: The End of an Illusion

Latin America's worst socioeconomic crisis since the Great Depression the increasing limitations of the import substitution model towards 1970 the Bretton Woods international financial system - its contribution and its contradictions financial flows to Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s the privatization of the international financial system in the 1970s and its implications the slow-down of growth in the industrial countries causes and management of debt crises in the early 1980s will the industrial countries' recovery solve the crises of debt and national development in Latin America? the search for a new international financial system towards reactivation and new development strategies.