Conditionality, Debt Relief, and the Developing Country Debt Crisis

Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Copyright 1989
ISBN 0226733386
Book: Developing Country Debt and the World Economy
Book editor: Jeffrey D. Sachs
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Jeffrey D. Sachs, Developing Country Debt and the World Economy (University of Chicago Press, 1989), chap. 14, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/developing-country-debt-and-world-economy/conditionality-debt-relief-and-developing-country-debt-crisis.

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