THE INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKET AND ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN LDCs
THE INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKET AND ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN LDCs
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国际资本市场与最不发达国家的经济自由化
DOI:
10.1111/j.1746-1049.1984.tb01168.x
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1984
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R. Mckinnon
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作者:
R. Mckinnon
OVERBORROWING in the course of an economic liberalization program, is a problem with which our profession has become acutely aware from the recent experience of Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Chile is a very good example of an economy that liberalized seemingly correctly from 1976 to 1979. Tariffs and quotas were eliminated from foreign trade; the fiscal deficit was turned into a fiscal surplus; interest rate ceilings were removed, and bank-reserve requirements were reduced. But then overseas borrowing by the newly liberalized private sector became enormous, and swamped the economy with external debt.However, the case of the Southern Cone in the 1970s and early 1980s is hardly very pure; in this period virtually all less developed countries overborrowed, and then got themselves into a debt crisis. This era was complicated by recycling from the oil shock on the one hand, and then what I consider to be a major breakdown in the public regulation of the risk-taking of Western commercial banks on the other. The result was gross overlending by banks in the world economy at large and to the Third World in particular.