Imperialism and the political economy of global south's debt

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight. With declining export earnings and tax revenues, many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia have found themselves objectively unable to service their foreign currency debt. This situati...

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Other Authors Sylla, Ndongo Samba (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesResearch in political economy ; v. 38.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781802624854
DOI10.1108/S0161-7230202338
Physical Description1 online resource (296 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Case studies
  • Chapter 1. The political economy of debt in the global south: The case of argentina (2001-2022) / Juan E. Santarcángelo and Juan Manuel Padín
  • Chapter 2. Can debt be sustainable, if life isn't? Argentina's debt crisis and social reproduction / Mariano Féliz
  • Chapter 3. Colonial hangover in global financial markets: Eurobonds, China, and African debt / Olufunmilayo Arewa
  • Chapter 4. Tightening the grip: Foreign creditors and sudan's political transition (2019-2022) / Harry Cross
  • Part 2: The elusive quest for a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism
  • Chapter 5. Refusing to improve: Sovereign debt and the political economy of inertia in UNCTAD 1964 - 1979 / Christina Laskaridis
  • Chapter 6. Limits of sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms and possible alternatives / Milan Rivie
  • Part 3: Foreign debt, development and imperialism
  • Chapter 7. Managing the balance-of-payments constraint: Dilemmas and perspectives / Basil Oberholzer
  • Chapter 8. Imperialism and global south's debt: Some insights from MMT, ecological economics and dependency theory / Ndongo Samba Sylla
  • Chapter 9. China and debt-trap diplomacy: A brief assessment / Shalendra Sharma.