Index

Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt

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Publication date: 20 March 2023

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(2023), "Index", Sylla, N.S. (Ed.) Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 231-238. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020230000038011

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INDEX

Aborted transition
, 99–102

Africa
, 56

sovereign debt cycles in
, 61–62

African Development Bank (AfDB)
, 98, 101

African Eurobond offerings
, 63–67

African sovereign debt landscape
, 62–67

Agribusiness
, 41

Agricultural sector
, 177

Ambitious national development strategies
, 166

Analytical approaches
, 176

Argentina
, 4–5, 7, 18

and debt
, 7–8, 25, 30

protectionism
, 11

Arusha program
, 117

Asia
, 17–18

Austral Plan
, 30–31

Balance-of payments constraint management
, 166

dilemma in practice
, 178–182

money and debt in international context
, 169–172

policies to deal with external constraint
, 172–178

reasons for and against public debt in domestic economy
, 167–169

reform to lift external constraint
, 182–185

Balance-of-payments–constrained growth model
, 170–172

Balance-of-payments–constrained model
, 176–177

Bank of Japan
, 197

Banking system
, 169

Beijing’s widening global reach
, 224

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
, 223–224

unpacking BRI and debt-trap diplomacy narrative
, 224–226

“Better Migration” program
, 94

BlackRock
, 71

Bretton Woods institutions
, 112–113

British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
, 60

Capital
, 36–37

flight
, 171

flows
, 170–171

Capitalism
, 25–26

Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA)
, 29

Chagos Archipelago case
, 60

Charter of Algiers
, 114

Charter on the Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974)
, 151

China and debt-trap diplomacy

unpacking belt and road initiative and debt-trap diplomacy narrative
, 224–226

China EXIM Bank
, 226–227

China’s challenges as global creditor in COVID-19 Context
, 227–229

Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy, Sri Lanka Case of
, 226–227

Chinese government
, 223–224

Chinese lending practices
, 225

Chinese Loans to Africa database
, 63

Collective Action Clauses (CACs)
, 139–140

Colonial hangover in Africa
, 56–57

African sovereign debt landscape
, 62–67

debt crisis cycles in Zambia
, 69–73

debt management, covid-19 pandemic, and DSSI
, 67–68

external debt and transparency
, 73–75

law, and development of sovereign debt markets
, 57–61

structural adjustment and sovereign debt cycles in Africa
, 61–62

Colonialism
, 56

Common Framework (CF)
, 68, 146

Conference of International Economic Cooperation (CIEC)
, 116

Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN)
, 74

Continued deficit financing
, 168

Convertibility Plan
, 30–31

Core
, 24

Core countries
, 197

government debt
, 196–197

Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 1966 (ICESCR)
, 151

COVID-19

China’s challenges as global creditor in COVID-19 context
, 227–229

pandemic
, 56, 67–68, 145–146

Creditor-dominated institutions
, 112–113

Creditor–debtor relations
, 227–228

Creditors
, 112–113

clutches of
, 146–147

Currency board
, 196

Debt crisis
, 112–113, 137–138

cycles in Zambia
, 69–73

Debt repayment

escalating political disputes over debt repayment difficulties
, 113–117

problems
, 113

Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI)
, 67–68, 141, 145–146, 228–229

Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA)
, 97–98

Debt-trap diplomacy
, 223–224, 226

China’s challenges as global creditor in COVID-19 Context
, 227–229

Sri Lanka Case of Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy
, 226–227

unpacking belt and road initiative and debt-trap diplomacy narrative
, 224–226

Debtors
, 112

Debts
, 89–90, 166, 202, 208

Argentina and
, 25–30

cancellation
, 100

debt-for-equity swap
, 226–227

debt-reduction period
, 4

debt-renegotiation processes
, 4–5, 9

debt-restructuring processes
, 8

debt-service payments
, 115

debt-to-gdp ratio
, 9

debt-trap narrative
, 225

forgiveness
, 99–100

in international context
, 169–172

life at center or no debt sustainability without life sustainability
, 36–43

management
, 67–68

reduction
, 4–5

service
, 202

sustainability
, 24, 30, 33

system
, 194, 212, 215

Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)
, 151

Default
, 56

Deflationary bias
, 39–40

Democracy
, 153–154

Democratic countries of South
, 199

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
, 155

Democratization
, 96–97

Dependence
, 156

Dependency
, 25

history
, 25–30

theory
, 194

Developing countries
, 208

Development
, 57–58

Domestic currency
, 183–184

Domestic debt
, 166–167

Domestic economy, reasons for and against public debt in
, 167–169

Drago-Porter Convention
, 139

Ecological Economics
, 194

Economic analysis
, 112

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
, 114

Economic crisis
, 5–9

Economic expertise
, 112

Economic growth
, 166

Economic knowledge
, 112

Economists
, 167

Education
, 167

Emerging markets
, 199–200, 214

Endogenous money theory
, 168

Euro
, 196–197

Eurobonds
, 63

European Economic Community (EEC)
, 125–126

Expertise
, 119–120

Exports
, 115

External capital
, 57

External constraint
, 169–172

heterodox strategies to deal with
, 176–178

policies to deal with
, 172–178

reform to lift
, 182–185

External debt (see also Foreign debt)
, 4, 8, 27, 73, 75, 115–116

External indebtedness, economic consequences of
, 16–18

Externally resourced projects (EPs)
, 200–201

Extractive models
, 58

Extractivism
, 39

Extractivist-based development strategies
, 40

Feminist movement
, 37

Finance, Free flows of trade and
, 172–174

Finance capital
, 26–27

Financial dependence
, 198–199, 214

Financial liberalization
, 172–173

Financial reform
, 6

Financial regulation
, 168

Financial valorization
, 26–27

Financing development
, 57

Financing gap
, 201

First Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE)
, 123

Fiscal adjustment
, 39–40

Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC)
, 95–96

Foreign capital
, 202

Foreign currency shortage
, 201

Foreign debt
, 24, 166–167, 170

accumulation
, 172

build-up of
, 172–173

fundamental monetary problem of
, 182–183

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
, 26, 170–171, 194, 201

first claimant right
, 202–208

Foreign indebtedness
, 7, 25, 27

Free flows of trade and finance
, 172–174

Fund investors
, 71

G19
, 125

Game of sabotage
, 211

General Assembly (GA)
, 114

Genetically modified organism (GMO)
, 41

Global multilateral financial organizations
, 225

Global North/North
, 215

Global South
, 138

challenges for
, 16–18

external debt
, 194, 209–210

Global South/South
, 215

Governments
, 195–196

deficit
, 195

Great Financial Crisis (2007–2008), The
, 196, 205–206

Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 9, 71, 97–98, 168, 197

Gross National Income (GNI)
, 98

Gross-debt-to-GDP ratio by currency denomination
, 9

Group of 20 (G-20)
, 112–113, 228–229

Group of 77 developing countries (G77)
, 113, 139

Group of Seven (G7)
, 112–113, 140

Gunboat policy
, 138–139

Health care
, 167

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPCs initiative)
, 57, 61–62, 92–93, 99, 102

Decision Point
, 101–102

Heterodox economics
, 168

Heterodox monetary approaches
, 172

Heterodox monetary theory
, 166

Heterodox solution
, 174–175

Heterodox strategies to deal with external constraint
, 176–178

Hidden debt problem
, 225–226

Higher domestic economic growth
, 170

Hydrocarbon extraction through hydraulic fracturing techniques
, 41

Hydrocarbon-rich countries
, 207–208

Idle resources
, 169

Illicit financial flows (IFFs)
, 73

Imminent default
, 126

Imperialism and global south’s debt

debt and FDI’S “first claimant” right
, 202–208

net resource transfers and unequal ecological exchange
, 208–210

NIEO illusion
, 210–215

on original Sin
, 198–202

public debt and monetary sovereignty
, 194–197

Imports
, 10

Indebtedness processes
, 4

Industrial policy
, 177

and public investment
, 174–175

Industrialization
, 213–214

Institute of International Finance (IIF)
, 140, 142–143

Integration process
, 6

Interests payments
, 12

Internal marginalization
, 56

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
, 114–115

International Borrowing Tribunal
, 139

International context, money and debt in
, 169–172

International Court of Justice (ICJ)
, 59–60

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
, 148–149

International Currency Hierarchy
, 199–200

International Debt Commission
, 139

International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
, 138, 168, 201

International law
, 151

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 4, 6, 24, 38–39, 61, 89, 114–115, 139–140, 168, 195, 225–226

actions
, 7

classical recommendations
, 4

early repayment of debt
, 8–9

International Debt Statistics
, 226

return to
, 12–16

International organizations
, 7

International payments
, 184–185

International payments, one-country reform of
, 183–185

Intrinsic financial constraint
, 195–196

Jubilee Debt Campaign
, 71

Jurisdictional arbitrage
, 58

Kirchnerism
, 12, 16–17, 30–31

Labor
, 14

Labor power
, 37

Latin America
, 17–18

Law
, 57–61

Life
, 24

Locally resourced projects (LPs)
, 200–201

London Club
, 61, 142–143

Long-run issues
, 126

Low income countries
, 205–206

Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
, 205–206

Macri administration
, 12–16

Macri government
, 30–31

Material dependence
, 201

Middle income countries
, 205–206

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
, 172, 194, 200

Monetarily sovereign governments
, 195–196

Monetary analysis
, 175

Monetary sovereignty
, 194–197

Monetary theory
, 166

Monetary union
, 169–170

Money
, 167–169

in international context
, 169–172

Mozambique case
, 73–75

Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)
, 61–62

Muslim Brotherhood
, 91

National Congress Party (NCP)
, 91

Neoclassical equilibrium analysis
, 172–173

Neoclassical framework
, 170

Neoliberal policies
, 4

prescriptions
, 173–174

Neoliberal solution
, 172–174

Neoliberal strategy
, 166

Neoliberalism
, 7

Net income payments
, 206

Net resource transfers
, 208–210

New International Economic Order (NIEO)
, 59, 194

external debt statistics for LMIC
, 212

illusion
, 210–215

Nixon shock
, 115

Odious debts
, 198–199

OECD governments
, 197

Official development assistance
, 202

Official lenders
, 225–226

Official transfers
, 202

One-country reform of international payments
, 183–185

Open-pit mining
, 41

Organization of African Unity
, 198–199

Original Sin concept
, 198–202

Overindebtedness
, 4–5

Pan-American Conference in Montevideo
, 139

Paris Club
, 61, 140, 142

of Industrial Country Creditors
, 112–113

Payment finality
, 183

People’s Republic of China (PRC)
, 223–224

Peripheral countries
, 197

Periphery
, 104

Persuasiveness
, 112

Policies to deal with external constraint
, 172–178

heterodox solution
, 174–175

heterodox strategies to deal with external constraint
, 176–178

neoliberal solution
, 172–174

unfortunate convergence of solutions
, 175–176

Policy instruments
, 184–185

Political economy of debt

economic consequences of external indebtedness and challenges for Global South
, 16–18

economic crisis and debt-renegotiation processes
, 5–9

IMF
, 12–16

Macri administration
, 12–16

return of external restrictions
, 10–11

Political feasibility or life at center
, 34–36

Political marginalization
, 99–100

Political-military intervention, forms of
, 26

Ponzi scheme
, 202

Post-Keynesian balance-of-payments–constrained growth model
, 166

Postcolonial African governments
, 89–90

Poverty
, 57–58, 67–68

reduction
, 58

Primary income
, 205–206

Progressive protection of economic and social rights
, 34

Public banking
, 5–6

Public debt
, 67, 194, 197

in domestic economy, reasons for and against
, 167–169

Public external debt evolution of Southern countries
, 143–145

Public investment
, 175–176

Real constraint
, 196

Real investment
, 169

Reform to lift external constraint
, 182–185

one-country reform of international payments
, 183–185

short recap of transfer problem
, 182–183

Renewable energy
, 178

Reproductive and care work
, 39

Resource transfers
, 208

Restructuring
, 60–61

Return of external restrictions
, 10–11

Revolution
, 102–103

Rights
, 42

Salvation to sanctions
, 91–92

Schmitt’s analysis
, 183–184

Second IGE
, 126–127

Shortage of foreign currency
, 201

Social reproduction
, 25, 36, 40–41

conditions
, 42

Social resistance
, 36

Social services
, 167

South-South financing
, 93–94

South’s external debt
, 212–213

Southern governments
, 211–212

Sovereign debt
, 113, 225

development of sovereign debt markets
, 57–61

of former colonies
, 56–57

Sovereign Debt Arbitration Chamber
, 139

Sovereign debt crisis
, 143

Sovereign debt cycles in Africa
, 61–62

Sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM)
, 138

audit of public debt with citizen participation
, 152–155

clutches of creditors
, 146–147

COVID-19 pandemic management
, 145–146

current mechanisms
, 140–143

history
, 138–139

international mechanism for
, 138

moratorium and oppose creditors’ conditionalities
, 151–152

principles and limits
, 147–151

public external debt evolution of Southern countries
, 143–145

right of states to declare nullity of public debt
, 155–156

risks for states
, 156–157

unilateral action
, 151–157

Sovereign defaults
, 89–90

Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)
, 183, 211

allocation system
, 211

Sri Lanka Case of Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy
, 226–227

Sri Lankan government
, 226–227

State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST)
, 99

State succession
, 59

Structural adjustment
, 61–62

Structural reforms
, 28

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
, 57

Sudan
, 88

counting Sudan’s debts
, 97–99

debt-to-GDP ratio
, 98

debts and development
, 89–90

forced “delinking”
, 92–94

HIPC, and aborted transition
, 99–102

revolution
, 94–97

revolution
, 102–103

salvation to sanctions
, 91–92

sovereign debts
, 88

Surplus value
, 37

Sustainability

of debt
, 24, 30, 33

of life
, 24

life at center or no debt sustainability without life sustainability
, 36–43

Sustainable debt forces
, 42–43

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 101–102, 172–173

Sveriges Riksbank
, 197

Tax havens
, 171

TDB Resolution 165 (S-IX)
, 117, 128

Technical dependence
, 201

Ten-Year Development Plan
, 89

Terms of trade
, 203

Thirlwall’s law
, 170

Trade and Development Board (TDB)
, 115–116

Trade and finance, free flows of
, 172–174

Transfer problem, short recap of
, 182–183

Transition
, 88

Transitional Government
, 96

Transitional Sovereignty Council
, 95–96

Transnational corporations
, 202

Transparency
, 73, 75, 224–226

in disclosure
, 225

Treasury and Central Bank
, 195–196

UN International Debt Resolution Mechanism
, 139

Unemployed labor force
, 169

UNEP FI
, 173

Unequal ecological exchange
, 208–210

Unfortunate convergence of solutions
, 175–176

United Nations (UN)
, 138–139

United Nations Children and Education Fund (UNICEF)
, 62

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
, 111–112, 139, 208

escalating political disputes over debt repayment difficulties
, 113–117

policy proposals
, 118–129

rejection and deferral
, 118–123

splintering proposals
, 123–129

UNCTAD IV
, 116

UNCTAD V
, 117

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
, 151

Unrealism
, 33

US dollar
, 196–197

Vanity project
, 226–227

Volcker Shock (1979)
, 90

Wage-led growth regime
, 177–178

Wall Street Consensus
, 173–174

War on Terror
, 94–95

Washington Consensus
, 173–174

Washington-based Institute of International Finance (Washington-based IIF)
, 223–224

Western governments
, 224–225

Willingness to pay
, 33

World Bank
, 6, 61, 140, 203, 224–226

World’s premier credit rating agencies
, 225

Zambia
, 56, 179

debt crisis cycles in
, 69–73