· How were Argentina and Brazil doing pre shock?

For this presentation we have chosen to refute that the countries that were hardest hit in the immediate aftermath of the oil crisis have made the best long-term adjustments to the oil shocks. Considering the data, which was available to us, we have chosen Argentina and Brazil to refute this statement as the evidence shows that both these countries were amongst those hardest hit.

At the start of the 19th century, South American countries started to borrow large sums of money from abroad. After the second world war, this borrowing increased substantially as these countries found it all too easy to keep on borrowing money instead of trying to find where the majority of this money was going to, as much of it was unaccounted for. In addition, this foreign borrowing also masked the need for domestic economic restructuring.

Both the political and industrial power was to be found in the hands of either the military or large, wealthy families. Therefore, a large proportion of this foreign borrowing was

(unemployment figures to be included)

Since the beginning of the 1990's however, both countries have seen a remarkable up turn in their economies. Both countries have started to go into a recovery phase since the early 1990's thanks to improved economic policies.

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