Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Finance for Development: Issues and Trends -- Part I: Changes in Latin America's Financial System since 1990: Comparisons with East Asia -- Financial Liberalization, Crisis, and the Aftermath -- Changes...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lure of Development Models -- Part One. The Chinese Model and its Global Reception -- Chapter 1 A China Model or Just a Broken Mould? -- Chapter 2 Latin America's View of China: Interest, but Scepticism -- Chapter 3 The China Model in Africa: A New...

The acute economic pressures of the 1980s have forced virtually all of Latin America and Africa and some countries in Asia into painful austerity programs and difficult economic reforms. Scholars have intensively analyzed the economics of this situation, but they have given much less attention...