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...Claudia Kedar Abstract Argentina joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) in 1956—ten years later than all other American nations and only one year after President Juan Perón’s overthrow. This fact has led scholars...

... The role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the economic development of Argentina has aroused a considerable amount of controversy. However, as Raúl García Heras states in his deeply researched book, we lacked a fully elaborated historical account based on archival records...

... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has long been an influential multilateral organization in Latin America’s economic policymaking. However, although a wide range of primary and secondary sources are available in different libraries and archives, substantial scholarly studies regarding its relations with major...

.... The style is somewhat colloquial, with profuse use of the first person. The main point of the author is that the IMF is misguided in its policies with respect to less-developed countries (LDCs). It is not simply unintentionally wrong, but it is actually serving the interests of the advanced countries...

... analyzes the impact of three economic stabilization programs in Argentina that were formulated in accordance with the criteria of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and supported by an IMF standby loan agreement. The three programs were applied, respectively, from 1959 to 1961, under the Arturo Frondizi...

... started with the promise of structural reform in 1952, but ended with a dubious record of military interference in the political arena in 1964, in no small measure due to the inordinate influence of the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Bolivia’s internal affairs. Analyzing the MNR regime...

..., and the archives of multilateral organizations. In this regard, the author furthers the path blazed by historians, like Claudia Kedar, who have analyzed the power dynamics of Argentina's relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In his exploration of the world of international borrowing, García Heras...

... (1964–68), but at the post-OPEC world where Brazil could maintain high growth only at the cost of rapid foreign indebtedness. Yet its high credit rating also allowed Brazil to avoid committing itself to formal stabilization policies of the IMF variety. In analyzing the Mexican case, FitzGerald explores...

... and Central America under Wilson, Taft, Harding, and Coolidge; economic and financial “missions” from the 1930s through the 1960s; the IMF- and World Bank–led interventions of the 1980s and 1990s, all in some way have helped enrich first U. S. banks and then the global banking industry. Drake tells how...

... Economic Commission for Latin America, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the IMF. The book is not light reading. The first volume begins with a brief introduction to the integration movement and then examines such problems as the balance of payments, frustrated efforts to promote trading...

... government-in-exile. After World War II Mexicans parlayed alliance with the winners into chairing a commission at Bretton Woods responsible for writing development as a goal into the United Nations (UN) Charter and for achieving veto power for smaller countries in the International Monetary Fund (IMF...

... for creating difficulties in underdeveloped countries so that imperialism can find cheap labor and raw materials. The Peruvian government comes in for implicit criticism for allowing the IMF to dictate economic and social policy to the detriment of lower income Peruvians, and for coping with current problems...

... structures of the “proletarians,” have resulted from “exogenous” forces (the World Bank, the IMF, the export elites), or represent some combination of forces, internal and external, that awaits further elaboration. ...

... relations with the IMF and other international donors are emphasized. The volume concludes with a comparison of the debt problems of the two countries. ...

... with the IMF at the time and the nature of the Peruvian military regime. Pion-Berlin himself shows that the nature of repression in the two cases is incomparable. The Peruvian military leaders were neither the committed ideologues nor the ruthless tyrants that their Argentine counterparts were...

... of pursuing traditional policies in an indexed economy. The net result was that in the 1980s IMF policies produced a major recession without solving Brazil’s inflationary problem” (pp. 143-45). The February 1986 “Cruzado Plan,” which froze many prices and wages, limited indexation in contracts of less...

... is tentatively confirmed by recent IMF statistics: Spain’s gold and foreign exchange reserves increased from a precariously low figure of $65 million in 1958 to over one billion dollars in 1962, and the rate of industrial output in December, 1962, exceeded the 1958 level by 53%. Further, between 1957-58 and 1961...

... collection of statistics and other descriptive material on European post-war loans and investment in Latin America. It also contains comparative data on the mounting foreign debt and the external financial obligations of various Latin American countries. Many of the statistics are compiled from IMF and OECD...

... great was the projected budgetary deficit that the United States alone could not bridge the gap; European countries, Japan, and the International Monetary Fund would have to be brought into the picture. Participation of the IMF, which would insist on a rigid austerity program and the postponement...

... of that decade, however, the IMF had lost most of its credibility as a neutral international lender of last resort. Its strategies chiefly benefited the private international banks—the main direct creditors. As a result, Latin American governments were forced into a complex and unpredictable game of alternately...