Banking on Growth: The Role of the Inter-American Development Bank

Now that the nations of the Americas have emerged from the trauma of the debt debâcle of the 1980s and are well on their way to overcoming the effects of the Mexican financial crisis of 1994, it is useful to examine more closely the instruments that brought the region through this turbulent period....

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Published in:Journal of inter-American studies and world affairs 1997-04, Vol.39 (1), p.85-100
Main Author: Scheman, L. Ronald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bank capital
Bank loans
Banking crises
Banking reforms
Banks
Development banks
Economic reform
Economic resources
Financial investments
International economic relations
International relations
Latin America
Loans
U.S.A
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Summary:Now that the nations of the Americas have emerged from the trauma of the debt debâcle of the 1980s and are well on their way to overcoming the effects of the Mexican financial crisis of 1994, it is useful to examine more closely the instruments that brought the region through this turbulent period. During this time, in which Latin America had neither direction nor resources, the policies were incubated that propelled a prodigious transformation in the economies and governance, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) matured into a major resource for the American nations.
ISSN:0022-1937
2162-2736
DOI:10.2307/166498