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Default as a Negotiating Tactic in Debt Rescheduling Strategies of Developing Countries: A Preliminary Note

In: Foreign Investment, Debt and Economic Growth in Latin America

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  • Richard L. Bernal

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The last decade has witnessed the exponential escalation of the external debt of developing countries to alarming levels, which constitute a serious problem for the international financial system. During the 1980s there has been a sharp increase in the number of defaults by developing countries and rescheduling exercises, involving both private and official creditors. Rescheduling debts has been by negotiations, which in many instances have been acrimonious affairs in which the debtors have had limited bargaining power, indeed, the only leverage has been that derived from default. This raises the crucially important issue of the use of default by an individual country as a tactic in debt rescheduling negotiations.

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  • Richard L. Bernal, 1988. "Default as a Negotiating Tactic in Debt Rescheduling Strategies of Developing Countries: A Preliminary Note," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Antonio Jorge & Jorge Salazar-Carrillo (ed.), Foreign Investment, Debt and Economic Growth in Latin America, chapter 6, pages 41-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08311-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08311-4_6
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