The Global Financial and Economic Crisis in the South Impact and Responses / edited by Jose Luis Leon-Manríquez, Theresa Moyo.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Moyo, Theresa, editor.

León, Jose Luis, editor.

Conference Name:

South-South Conference: The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and the South: Impact and Responses (2012 : Dakar, Senegal)

Series:

Codesria book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developing countries--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Developing countries.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Congresses.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Financial crises--Developing countries--Congresses.

Financial crises.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2015]

Summary:

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

PART I - BACKGROUND TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS

1. The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Origins, Effects and Responses in the Global South - An Overview

The Global Crisis: Four Reasons and Two Mechanisms of Transmission

The Great Recession in Historical Perspective: Implications and Future Scope

Keynes to the Rescue: Worldwide Responses to the Great Recession

Impacts and Responses in the Global South: Overview of this Book

References

PART II - THE CRISIS IN LATIN AMERICA: ORIGINS, RESPONSES, CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS

2. The Financial Crisis, its Diverse Economic Effects and Responses from Latin America: A Global Crisis?

Introduction

Methodological Approach

Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Literature Review

The Financial Crisis and its Effects on Latin America

Crisis and Globalization

Policy Implications

Conclusion

Notes

3. All Keynesian Now? Mexico and South Korea's Diverging Responses to the Global Crisis

Why South Korea and Mexico? Theoretical Bases and Methodological Sources for a Cross-country Comparison

The Global Crisis and its Contagion to Mexico and South Korea

The Role of Internal Markets, Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Diversification Versus Concentration: The Role of International Integration and Trade

Conclusion and Recommendations

4. The Global Crisis and the Arrival of the People's Republic of China in Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States, the Periphery and the Crisis: The PRC in the Eye of the Storm

Chinese Strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chinese Investment

A South-South Relationship?.

Beijing Consensus Instead of Washington Consensus?

The PRC and LAC in the New International Division of Labour

Conclusion: Geopolitical Considerations of the Current Crisis

PART III - THE GLOBAL CRISIS IN AFRICA: PROFILES AND RESPONSES FROM COUNTRIES AND ECONOMIC SECTORS

5. African Stock Exchanges: Does Integration with the Global South Reduce Susceptibility to Financial Crises?

Empirical Review: Stock Markets and the Global Financial Crisis

Research Methodology

Results and Discussions

Reflections on Countries of the Global South and Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Summary and Conclusion

Annexes

6. Global Economic Crisis and South Africa's Manufacturing Industry: The Case of the Automotive, Textile and Clothing, and Mining Industries

Introduction: The Global Financial and Economic Crisis

Theoretical Framework

Overview of the Automotive, Mining, and Textile and Clothing Industries

Presentation and Interpretation of Findings: Impact of the Crisis on the Three Sectors

Policy Responses and Implications

Public Infrastructure Investment Programme

Training Layoff Scheme for Workers in Affected Industries

Introduction of a Production Incentive for the Textile and Clothing Industry

7. Analysis of the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and Government Measures: The Case of the Timber Industry in Congo, Cameroon and Gabon

Methodology

Presentation and Interpretation of Results

The Production of Raw Wood

The Exports of Sawn Wood

Plywood Exports

Impact of the Crisis on the Timber Industry

Measures Taken Against the Crisis.

Policy Implications

Measures Taken by Each Country

Discussion of These Measures

8. The Impact of the Financial Crisis: Developments in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Africa

Overview of the Financial Crisis

Falling FDI

The Mobile Telecommunications Industry

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Africa

PART IV - PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES FROM ASIA

9. Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Philippine State and Society in the 1997 and 2008 Financial Crises

The Philippines after the 1986 EDSA 'Revolution'

The 1997 Crisis: Did the Sick Man of Asia Really Escape from the Pneumonia?

The 2008 Crisis: Was the Philippines Ready for it?

Lessons Unlearned

Recurring Crisis?

10. Global Economic Crisis and Insecurity in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan

Conceptual Framework for Impacts of Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Political and Security Instabilities

Related Literature

Afghanistan: Emerging out of Ashes

Pakistan: Dwindling Economy with Rising Radical Extremism

Tajikistan: A Gateway of Drug-trafficking, Extremism and Terrorism

Conclusion and Policy Implications

11. Accountability in Public-Private Partnerships: The Emerging Development Paradigm in India amidst Financial Crisis

State Intervention, Development and PPPs

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

Contextualizing Accountability

Accountability: Various Dimensions

Accountability in PPPs

Trajectory of PPPs in India

Lessons from the Indian experience of PPPs in healthcare

Hospitals entering PPPs

Policy Practice.

Conclusion

PART V - BUILDING POLITICAL AND ECONOMICA LTERNATIVES TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

12. Chinese Social Transformationand its Implications for the Future of Afro-Asian Solidarity

The Spirit of Bandung and the Peoples of the World

The NIEO and the Future of our Children

ASEAN States Oppose Neoliberalism

China and Kissinger in the Midst of the War Against Vietnam

The Economic Transformation of China

When China Rules the World

Spirit of Bandung and the BRICS Bank

Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Era of the Bio-economy

13. The Global Financialand Economic Crisis and the South: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here?

Recommendations

Back cover.

Notes:

"This book is an outcome of the 'South-South Conference: The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and the South: Impact and Responses' which was held 17-18 May 2012 in Dakar, Senegal"--Page xiii.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

2-86978-733-2

OCLC:

1017611696