00858nam a2200145Ia 4500 20260716043122.0 03.02.01 C2773 Pantin, Dennis A. Meeting the short term social debt: the case of Trinidad and Tobago: background paper ILO. PREALC Caribbean Office Port of SpainTT 1991 86p. Studies the social debt situation in Trinidad and Tobago within the conceptual and methodological framework of pioneering work of PREALC in this area. Details the build up of foreign indebtedness and the onset of 'external surveillance' by the IMF and World Bank and measures the impact of short term social debt on social groups in Trinidad and Tobago. Advances proposals for repayment of the social debt within an equitable adjustment process. 3/7/00 M2LMGR M C2773 40709 40709