Review article: Continuing dance of the debt squads? … Or out of the debt crisis? … An extended review of four books on third world debt

A Fate Worse than Debt. By Susan George. (London, Penguin Books, 1988, pp.290, £4.50 paperback.) The Dance of the Millions: Latin America and the Debt Crisis . By Jackie Roddick. (London, Latin America Bureau, 1988, pp.256, £5.95, paperback.) The Debt Squads: the US, the Banks and Latin America . By SUe Branford and Bernardo Kucinski. (London, Zed Books, 1988, pp.142, £7.95, paperback: an earlier version ( A Ditidura da Divida) was first published in Portuguese by Editora Brasiliense, Sao Paulo, in 1987.) Growing out of Debt . By Adrian Hewitt and BOWEN WELLS, MP (eds.). (London, Overseas Development Institute for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas, Development, 1989, pp.82, £4.95 paperback.)