SOAS Research Online

A Free Database of the Latest Research by SOAS Academics and PhD Students

[skip to content]

Weeks, John (2003) 'Developing Country Debt and Globalisation.' In: Saad Filho, Alfredo, (ed.), Anticapitalism: A Marxist Introduction. London: Pluto Press.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

This chapter considers the relationship between developing country external debt and the integration of world markets in the 1980s and 1990s (‘globalisation’). Governments, companies, other institutions, and individuals contract debt, and it is a major confusion to refer to the debt of ‘countries’. Perhaps the defining characteristic of an external debt is that the contracting party is not, in general, the party upon whom the burden for repayment falls. In general, governments and the wealthy in developing countries contract the debt, while it is the mass of the non-wealthy population that bears the burden of its repayment.

Item Type: Book Chapters
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies
ISBN: 9780745318936
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18dzv2x.17
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2009 15:42
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/6513

Altmetric Data

Statistics

Download activity - last 12 monthsShow export options
Downloads since deposit
6 month trend
0Downloads
6 month trend
308Hits
Accesses by country - last 12 monthsShow export options
Accesses by referrer - last 12 monthsShow export options

Repository staff only

Edit Item Edit Item