The book examines the operation of International Monetary Fund and World Bank conditionality in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Tanzania) and examines its effects on their economies.

Preface; E.Rodr guez - The Political Economy of Banking Regulations; E.Rodr guez - European Banking Regulations and Third World Debt: The Technical, Political and Institutional Issues; S.Griffith-Jones - Cross-Conditionality or the Spread of Obligatory Adjustment: A Review of the Issues and Questions for Research; S.Griffith-Jones - Adjustment and Conditionality in Chile (1982-88); R.Ffrench-Davis - A Path in the Maze: Costa Rica, Cross-Conditionality and Development; E.Rodr guez - Sweet Entanglement: Argentina and the World Bank (1985-89); D.Tussie & M.Botzman - Cross-Conditionality: The Case of Mexico and the World Bank; R.Villarreal - Cross-Conditionality and Obligatory Adjustment in the 1980s: The Case of Tanzania; J.Doriye - Conditionalities and Cross-Conditionalities in the 1980s: The Jamaican Experience; S.Henry - Conclusions; E.Rodr guez & S.Griffith-Jones - Index