Trade finance, banking introspection and emerging economies
Squeezes of trade finance have been among the factors responsible for the recent collapse of trade. Those squeezes should be seen in the context of an overall “introspection” of…
Squeezes of trade finance have been among the factors responsible for the recent collapse of trade. Those squeezes should be seen in the context of an overall “introspection” of…
Wilson Center - V Symposium on International Trade https://youtu.be/ujeHETOaq2o?list=PLzM1iiQhVrdElNYm8OeuNv0JOVVJxhoQ4 The V Symposium on International Trade this year took place right in the height of the global financial crisis,…
First appeared here: Globalization Team at the Institute of Development Studies (org.). Voices from the South: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Developing Countries, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, p.…
WILSON CENTER, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2008 https://youtu.be/jWfvqaFHjfs
It may seem odd that a relatively upbeat assessment of the prospects for securitization in Latin America (by Michela Scatigna and Camilo Tovar) has been released this month in the BIS…
As global financial markets undergo a new phase of repricing risks and normalization of global asset prices, after the peak of a Minsky credit cycle, the current (long or short) period of turbulence…
A lot has been said in recent years about why Brazil has high interest rates and we shall return to the issue. Let me today address one aspect of the latest…
Krishna Guha in Washington MAY 22, 2007 Brazil’s representative at the World Bank on Tuesday challenged the tradition by which the US decides who will be the bank’s president. In…
Alex Uriarte has called our attention to the hampering effects of high levels of informality on productivity growth in Latin America. Informality distorts competition in domestic markets as it leads…
The growing world interest in biofuels in the past few years can be explained by several factors. High crude oil prices, local and global environmental impacts of fossil fuels,…
O presente texto tem como objeto o conceito e os determinantes do risco soberano, bem como o papel cumprido pelas agências de classificação de riscos de crédito que, no…