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International Lending: The Case For Developing Nations, Harold G. Maier
International Lending: The Case For Developing Nations, Harold G. Maier
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
As is peculiarly appropriate for any conference dealing with a rapidly developing and constantly changing area of international economic activity, both the speakers and the participants at this meeting raised more questions than were answered. A principal theme, illustrated by the papers reproduced here, was the need for careful consideration of the problem--legal and commercial-- involved in international lending on the basis of specific information concerning its effect, its promise and the needs involved. Generalizations concerning activities in developing countries are increasingly ineffective as guides to government or business policy or academic inquiry. Recent events in the Middle East confirm …
The Role Of International Lending In Developing Economies, Orville L. Freeman
The Role Of International Lending In Developing Economies, Orville L. Freeman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A consideration of International Lending: The Case of Developing Nations is timely not only because of the forces that are propelling the Third World into a position of increasing strategic and political importance but also as a recognition of the importance of credit to development and of the fact that loans and self-help, rather than massive infusions of outside assistance, are the key to real development. It is not this writer's intention to discuss different forms of credit or the many practical, technical and legal hurdles to mobilizing and delivering loans to the Third World on a fair basis to …