Palma, Pedro A. (1990) The Solution to the Crisis (Latin America) Monthly Report. Caracas: MetroEconómica. Special Section. January. Pp. 31-37. As the 1990s got under way, Venezuelans – and Latín Americans in general- were naturally wondering whether that was going to be yet another lost decade like the 1980s, or whether we could finally …
Palma, Pedro A. (1989) Commodity price contractions, debt and economic growth in developing economies: The Venezuelan case. In Klein, L. R. and Márquez, J. (Eds.) Economics in Theory and Practice: An Eclectic Approach. Boston – London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter V. Pp. 101-127. One of the consequences of the emergence of the Latin American …
Palma, Pedro A. (1988) Real Alternatives for Handling the Latin American Debt Problem, Jorge, A. – Salazar-Carrillo, J. (Editors) The Latin American Debt. Chapter V. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 67-83. The experience accumulated over the first six years of the foreign debt problem (1982- 1988) allow us to reach a basic conclusion: the methods …
Fontiveros, Domingo and Palma, Pedro A. (1987) External Debt and the Recessive Impact of a Devaluation: The Venezuelan Case. Caracas: MetroEconómica. March 1987. This paper synthesizes our ongoing evaluation of the Venezuelan government’s economic policy initiatives since December 1986, including an important currency devaluation, their short term effects on the economy, as well as …
Palma, Pedro A. (1984) The Debt Problem: A Debtor’s Point of View. Hickman, B. G. (Ed.) International Monetary Stabilization and the Foreign Debt Problem. San Francisco: Project Link and The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Pp. 91-101. After two years of restructuring negotiations between the debtor countries and the creditor banks, in 1984 …
Pedro A. Palma (1983) Latin America and Its External Debt. Paper presented at the Project Link meeting, New York: United Nations. March. At the early stages of the Latin American debt problem of the 1980s serious problems were present in several countries of the region, making us to believe that that situation was going …
Palma, Pedro A. (1982) Venezuela’s Foreign Public Debt. Jorge, A. – Salazar-Carrillo, J. – Higonnet, R. (Eds.) Foreign Debt and Latin American Economic Development. New York: Pergamon Press. Pp. 163-168. For several decades Venezuela considered itself conservative with respect to foreign indebtedness. It financed most of its public sector expenses with oil income, both elements …