Crisis? What Crisis? Orderly Workouts for Sovereign DebtorsThe Mexican Crisis of 1994/5 came as a rude surprise to the international policy-making community. It revealed serious confusion over how markets, governments, and multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund should deal with financial crises in heavily-indebted developing economies. It laid bare a remarkable lack of planning for financial crises in today's world of globalized bond and equity markets. This report analyses various approaches to coping better with Mexico-style crises. |
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Bankruptcy in theory and practice | 7 |
Bankruptcy in the sovereign setting | 14 |
4 | 27 |
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Crisis? What Crisis? Orderly Workouts for Sovereign Debtors Barry J. Eichengreen,Richard Portes No preview available - 1995 |
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