In this Paper we focus on the question: Will the HIPC debt reduction program help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...

This paper explores to what extent the magnitude and speed of the contagion effects that materialized in East Asia in the second half of 1997 may have had "real" underpinnings, in the sense that the pattern of production, consumption and trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries...

Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction and Framework of the Study -- The Arab Uprisings of 2011: How Did We Get There? -- Cross-Regional Variation in the Arab Uprisings -- A Political Economy Framework -- The...