Sovereign Debt, Europe & The Global South
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Overview
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Background Information11 Topics
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1. What is debt? What is sovereign debt?
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2. Is having high levels of sovereign debt always a bad thing?
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3. What causes a debt crisis?
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4. The Bretton Woods decades
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5. The first global sovereign debt crisis
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6. Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Global North
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7. The New Debt Crisis
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8. Resolving debt crises (1): what are the options?
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9. A: The Neoliberal Approach to Resolving Debt Crises
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10. Resolving debt crises (2): conditionalities, structural adjustment & economic recovery
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11. Debt: A Guide to Further Reading
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1. What is debt? What is sovereign debt?
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Endnotes
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References
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Interactive learningDeepen your knowledge1 Quiz
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Training materialExercises for group activities4 Topics
11. Debt: A Guide to Further Reading
The politics of quantitative easing: A critical assessment of the harmful impact of European monetary policy on developing countries SOMO Rodrigo Fernandez & Pablo Bortz & Nicolas Zeolla Amsterdam, June 2018
Ellmers, Bodo (2016) The evolving nature of developing country debt and solutions for change. Eurodad. Brussels, July 2016 https://eurodad.org/ files/pdf/1546625-the-evolving-nature-of-developing-country-debt-andsolutions-for-change-1474374793.pdf
Jubilee Debt Campaign – A History of Debt
Honest Accounts (2017) How the world profits from Africa’s wealth https://eurodad.org/files/pdf/592fd13288604.pdf
Eurodad (2020) Out of service: How public services and human rights are being threatened by the growing debt crisis: https://eurodad.org/files/pdf/1547133-out-of-service-how-public-services-and-human-rights-are-being-threatened-by-the-growing-debt-crisis.pdf
Jubilee Debt Campaign (2015) The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next https://eurodad.org/files/pdf/1546465-the-new-debt-trap-how-the-response-to-the-last-global-financial-crisis-has-laid-the-ground-for-the-next.pdf
- See also 2017 update jubileedebt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/New-debt-trap-briefing_10.17.pdf