Global Debt Dynamics - Crises, Lessons, Governance

List of contents

1. Introduction How ‘demos’ met ‘cracy’: debt, inequality, money Andreas Antoniades and Ugo Panizza 2. Sri Lanka’s debt troubles in the new development finance landscape Dushni Weerakoon 3. Fiscal crises in Barbados: comparing the early 1990s and thepost-2008 crises Kristina Hinds and Jeremy Stephen 4. Divergence via Europeanisation: rethinking the origins of the Portuguese debt crisis Neil Dooley 5. Funding Hungary: competing crisis management priorities of troika institutions Dóra Piroska 6. Debt in the super-periphery: the case of the Western Balkans Will Bartlett and Ivana Prica 7. Debt relief initiatives 20 years on and implications of the new development finance landscape Shakira Mustapha and Annalisa Prizzon 8. The global debt governance system for developing countries: deficiencies and reform proposals Kathrin Berensmann

About the author

Andreas Antoniades is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is also the convenor of the Global Debt Dynamics Initiative, and the Principal Investigator in the SSRP project ‘Debt and Environmental Sustainability’.
Ugo Panizza is Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland. He is also the director of the Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development, Director of the Centre for International and Monetary Banking Studies, and Editor in Chief of International Development Policy.

Summary

This book explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored debt crises from different regional and socioeconomic contexts. It will interest students, scholars and professionals of global debt studies. It was first published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas (University of Sussex Antoniades
• Assisted by: Andreas Antoniades (Editor), Andreas (University of Sussex Antoniades (Editor), Antoniades Andreas (Editor), Ugo Panizza (Editor), Ugo (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Panizza (Editor), Panizza Ugo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780367151935
• ISBN: 978-0-367-15193-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Thirdworlds; ThirdWorlds
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Governance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Political Economy, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Development Studies, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government