TY - GEN T1 - Debt and Crisis in Latin America : the Supply Side of the Story. T2 - Princeton legacy library. A1 - Devlin, Robert LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2014 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn884013100 AB - Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been placed on the role of the region's principal creditors--private banks--in the development of the crisis. Robert Devlin rounds out the story of Latin America's debt problem by demonstrating that the banks were an endogenous source of instability in the region's debt cycle, as they overexpanded on the upside and overcontracted on the downsi. OP - 339 NO - Cover; Contents. CN - HG3891.5 SN - 9781400860531 SN - 1400860539 SN - 0691634270 SN - 9780691634272 KW - Loans, Foreign : Latin America. KW - Debts, External : Latin America. KW - Latin America : Foreign economic relations. KW - Prêts étrangers : Amérique latine. KW - Dettes extérieures : Amérique latine. KW - Amérique latine : Relations économiques extérieures. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Development : Economic Development. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Public Finance. KW - Debts, External KW - International economic relations KW - Loans, Foreign KW - Latin America ER -