Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022, 16:15 - 18:00 iCal

ie.talks mit Sven van Mourik

"The façade of solvency: uncovering the leverage of Paris Club creditors in rescheduling the debts of the Global South (1980-2000)"

 

Co-sponsored by RECET (https://www.recet.at/)

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Online Event

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In the 1980s and 1990s, no less than 123 heavily indebted countries across the Global South embarked on 525 IMF adjustment programs to restructure their economies—often amidst riots, fervent political opposition, and smoldering skepticism among experts. What propelled this unprecedented global dissemination of the IMF’s programs, which its staff claim have “no alternative?” This talk investigates how countries who refused to accept IMF adjustment faced a loss of creditworthiness, ostracism from global markets, and de facto economic collapse. Central to this financial leverage is the little-known Paris Club of official creditors, the world's only platform for rescheduling sovereign debt. Emerging as judge and jury over solvency and sovereign default in the wake of the 1982 international debt crisis, the Paris Club grew to rely on the IMF’s programs as a shorthand for creditworthiness—which for developing countries became the only way to stay solvent on unrepayable debt.

 

Sven van Mourik is a PhD candidate in economic history at New York University.

 

Dieser Talk findet online statt. Sie finden den Zugangslink auf der Veranstaltungswebseite unten sowie auf der RECET Webseite.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Internationale Entwicklung, RECET

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Kontakt

Alexander Hass
Institut für Internationale Entwicklung
+43-1-4277-641 01
alexander.hass@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 22. November 2022, 14:10
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 24. November 2022, 14:50