What's different about this Global Debt Crisis?

Oct 23, 2024
25 mins

Episode Description

Jan Kregel, a former high level UN official and highly regarded economist specialising in development finance, and former finance minister of Colombia, José Antonio Ocampo, share their perspectives on this debt crisis compared to historic ones; they discuss the relationship between creditors and debtors, and highlight how climate change needs us to rethink debt resolution mechanisms altogether.

From the International Development Economics Associates - a network of progressive economists who centre the perspectives and needs of the Global South.

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