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...blunt message to the foreign banks and governments that have loaned Peru money. Determined and defiant, García vowed to renegotiate Peru's $13.7 billion debt during the next twelve months, and said that while doing so he would devote no more than 10% of his country's export earnings to making interest payments...
...requiring a cutoff of funds to countries that are more than a year in arrears. But his policy might set a dangerous precedent: if such debtors as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which together owe more than $200 billion, were to limit payments to a fraction of export earnings, many large U.S. banks might face a squeeze on profits...
...Partly as a result, the gross domestic product will drop 2% to 3% this year. The combined rate of joblessness and underemployment climbed from 31% in 1980 to around 44% in 1984. Meanwhile, interest payments on Guatemala's $2.3 billion foreign debt consume roughly 40% of the country's export earnings...
Throughout 1983 and '84, the U.S. was the churning locomotive of the world economy. But when that engine of growth sputtered and slowed this year, many of the trading partners it was pulling along practically lurched off the track. The jolt was particularly rough on the export-driven economies of the Pacific Basin. In Taiwan, which depends on the American market to absorb nearly half its exports, growth in the production of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, has fallen from 10.9% in 1984 to a projected 4.2% this year. Over the same period, Singapore's rate of expansion...
...limits foreign ownership to 49%. In January, Mexico rejected IBM's proposal to build the plant, but the company made several concessions to get the deal. It agreed to invest $91 million over five years, instead of the $6.6 million initially planned. The firm also said that it would export 92% of the factory's production, thus easing fears among Mexican computer companies that IBM would drive them out of business. COMPUTERS Enter Amiga, Stage Center...