Playing with Fire: Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South

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Yilmaz Akyuz (Chief Economist, Chief Economist, South Centre)

Playing with Fire

Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South

Yilmaz Akyuz (Chief Economist, Chief Economist, South Centre)

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Oxford University Press
20 July 2017

International finance; Development economics; Public finance; Commodities

Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies

Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets. Despite recurrent crises, liberalization has continued and in fact accelerated in the new millennium. Integration has been greatly facilitated by progressively looser monetary policy in the United States, notably the policies that culminated in debt crises in the United States and Europe and the ultra-easy monetary policy adopted in response. Not only have their traditional cross-border linkages been deepened and external balance sheets expanded rapidly, but also foreign presence in their domestic financial markets and the presence of their nationals in foreign markets have reached unprecedented levels. As a result new channels have emerged for the transmission of financial shocks from global boom-bust cycles. Almost all EDEs are now vulnerable irrespective of their balance-of-payments, external debt, net foreign assets and international reserve positions although these play an important role in the way such shocks could impinge on them. This is a matter for concern since the multilateral system still lacks mechanisms for orderly resolution of financial crises with international dimensions. Playing with Fire provides an empirical account of deeper integration of EDEs into the global financial system and discusses its implications for stability and growth, focusing on the role of policies in the new millennium in both EDEs and the United States and Europe.

By: Yilmaz Akyuz (Chief Economist Chief Economist South Centre)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9780198797173
ISBN 10: 0198797176
Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 July 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I. The Financial Crisis, Policy Response and the Global South 1: Policy response in advanced economies: Neo-liberal fallacies and obsessions 2: Spillovers to the global South Part II. Internationalization of Finance and Changing Vulnerabilities in Emerging and Developing Economies 3: Deepening integration 4: External vulnerabilities 5: Crisis management and resolution Part III. Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development: Myths and Realities 6: Foreign direct investment: Its nature and impact on capital formation and balance-of-payments 7: FDI, industrialization and development: Role of policy Conclusions

Dr Yilmaz Akyüz is former Director of Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at UNCTAD, principal author and head of the team preparing the Trade and Development Report, and coordinator of research support to the Group-of-24 in the IMF on International Monetary and Financial Issues. He has directed research on trade, finance, investment and development, taught at various universities, and published extensively in macroeconomics, finance, growth and development. Dr Akyüz is second holder of the Tun Ismail Ali International Chair in Monetary and Financial Economics at the University of Malaya, and now works as the Chief Economist of the South Centre, an Intergovernmental Think Tank of the Developing Countries, based in Geneva.