Globalization and Its Discontents

TL;DR: The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries as discussed by the authors addresses the challenges that countries face as they develop and strengthen capital markets, and provides practical guidance on strategies such as nurturing issuers, improving rules and institutions, addressing regulatory challenges, and sequencing reforms.

TL;DR: Rodney Bruce Hall as discussed by the authors argues that those who govern the parameters of money's creation, its destruction, and its valuation are responsible for the governance of international finance, and proposes a constructivist social analysis that identifies the mechanisms of governance as social rather than material processes.

TL;DR: The authors examines our contemporary engagement with the Cultural Other from an existential perspective and introduces the idea of the "fear of the unknown" as a foundation of our difficulty in accepting Otherness.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of prior participation in IMF programs on the evolution of reserve adequacy and the length of time between participation spells, and found that prior participation was associated with increased recidivism in the least developed countries, while the reduction in duration is more strongly observed in emerging and transition economies.