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The development finance challenges facing Latin America in the 1990s

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Growth in Latin America in the 1980s was much slower than it had been in previous decades and real resource transfer has been negative since 1983. What are the chances that this situation will change in the nineties? Where can the necessary development finance come from? Can bottlenecks be avoided?

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  1. CEPAL: Balance Preliminar de la Economía de América Latina y el Caribe 1991, published 1990, p. 22.

  2. Interamerican Development Bank: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1990 Report, Washington D.C. 1990, p. 20.

  3. Ibid. Interamerican Development Bank: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1990 Report, Washington D.C. 1990, p. 19.

  4. CEPAL, op. cit. Balance Preliminar de la Economía de América Latina y el Caribe 1991, published 1990, p. 33.

  5. Interamerican Development Bank, op. cit. Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1990 Report, Washington D.C. 1990, p. 24.

  6. Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank AG: Kurzbericht über Lateinamerika, No. 1/91, p. 125.

  7. Ibid., Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank AG: Kurzbericht über Lateinamerika, No. 1/91, p. 127.

  8. Gert Rosenthal: Five Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbeans in the Nineties (facsimiled), Paris 1990, p. 6.

  9. Ibid. Gert Rosenthal: Five Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbeans in the Nineties (facsimiled), Paris 1990, pp. 10 f.

  10. On this, see Karin Curilla: Neue Integrationsansätze in Lateinamerika, in: Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank, op. cit. AG: Kurzbericht über Lateinamerika, No. 1/91, pp. 13 ff.

  11. The statistical data on development funding capacities are taken from. Interamerican Development Bank, op. cit. Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1990 Report, Washington D.C. 1990

  12. Gert Rosenthal, op. cit. Five Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbeans in the Nineties (facsimiled), Paris 1990, pp. 3 f.

  13. Ibid. Gert Rosenthal: Five Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbeans in the Nineties (facsimiled), Paris 1990, p. 7.

  14. Peter Nunnenkamp: Deutsche Auslandsinvestoren in der Entwicklungsländer-Falle?, Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge 1644, Kiel 1991, p. 6.

  15. Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank, op. cit. AG: Kurzbericht über Lateinamerika, No. 1/91, p. 136.

  16. Peter Nunnenkamp, op. cit., esp. Deutsche Auslandsinvestoren in der Entwicklungsländer-Falle?, Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge 1644, Kiel 1991, pp. 4 ff.

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    Jürgen Westphalen

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Westphalen, J. The development finance challenges facing Latin America in the 1990s. Intereconomics 26, 281–286 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929012

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