The Global Financial and Economic Crisis in the South: Impact and Responses: Impact and Responses

Authors

José Luis León-Manríquez Theresa Moyo
José Luis León-Manríquez
Gastón J. Beltrán
José Luis León-Manríquez
Pablo Alejandro Nacht
Terfa Williams Abraham
Theresa Moyo
Bertrand Mafouta
Maxwell Chanakira
Rolando Talampas
Hidayet Siddikoglu
Tanvir Aeijaz
Horace G. Campbell
Theresa Moyo
José Luis León-Manríquez
Theresa Moyo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.57

Keywords:

Global Financial, Economic, South, Impact, Responses

Synopsis

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012. The conference was organised in response to the financial crisis of 2008 which started in the United States and Europe, with reverberating effects on a global scale.

Economic problems emanating from such crises usually leave major social and structural impacts on important sectors of the society internationally. They affect living standards and constrain the well-being of people, especially in poor countries. Persistent problems include high unemployment, increased debt and low growth in developed countries, as well as greater difficulties in accessing finance for investment in the developing world.

There is a need for countries in the South to examine the available options for appropriate national and regional responses to the different problems emanating from the economic crisis. This book attempts to provide ideas on some strategic responses to the disastrous impact of the crisis, while keeping in mind the global common interest of the South.

It is hoped that the book will contribute significantly towards the agenda to rethink development and the quest for alternative paradigms for a just, stable and equitable global political, economic and social system. A system in which Africa, Asia, and Latin America are emancipated from the shackles of hegemonic and anachronistic neoliberal dictates that have nothing more to offer than crises, vulnerabilities and dependency.

 

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José Luis León-Manríquez Theresa Moyo

 holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. His research interests include international relations and economic development in Latin America and East Asia. He was a
member of the Mexican Foreign Service and Deputy Director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies. He has been consultant for AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A worldwide lecturer, he is editor or author of nine
books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. His newest edited book is China Engages Latin America. Tracing the Trajectory. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City

José Luis León-Manríquez

holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. His research interests include international relations and economic development in Latin America and East Asia. He was a member of the Mexican Foreign Service and Deputy Director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies. He has been consultant for AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A worldwide lecturer, he is editor or author of nine books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. His newest edited book is China Engages Latin America. Tracing the Trajectory. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City.

Gastón J. Beltrán

passed away in October 2013 in Tolhuin, Argentina. He was a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher for the National Council for Research in Science and Technology (CONICET). He
held a PhD in Social Science from the University of Buenos Aires and was PhD candidate at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He published several articles on such issues as business political action, economic elites and the role of economic experts. His areas of study included
the problem of the limits of rationality in the decision-making processes, as well as the economic crisis and the spread of political economic ideas through the globe. He published, among other books, Los intelectuales liberales. Poder tradicional y poder pragmático and ¿Qué hacen los sociólogos?

José Luis León-Manríquez

 holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. His research interests include international relations and economic development in Latin America and East Asia. He was a
member of the Mexican Foreign Service and Deputy Director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies. He has been consultant for AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A worldwide lecturer, he is editor or author of nine
books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. His newest edited book is China Engages Latin America. Tracing the Trajectory. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City

Pablo Alejandro Nacht

is a PhD candidate at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He got his Master’s degree in International Economic Relations and his undergraduate degree
in Political Science in the University of Buenos Aires. He is Reseacher at the Institute Studies of Historic, Economic, Social and Foreign Affairs (IDEHESI). His main research focus is on contemporary political, economic and defence relations of China with Latin America and Argentina. He has been visiting scholar in academic institutions in Norway, Germany, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Terfa Williams Abraham

 is a Research Officer (Economist) at the Research Division of the National Institute for Legislative Studies, National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria. His research fields are financial markets, public finance,
climate change and development economics. An Associate Member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) and an individual member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), he has participated in several internationally-funded conferences and workshops.
His recent journal articles include: ‘Testing the Relationship between Government Revenue and Expenditure: Evidence from Nigeria’ (2012) and ‘Impact of Public Expenditure on Climate Change in Nigeria: Lessons from South Africa’ (2012).

Theresa Moyo

is a Senior Lecturer at the Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo where she lectures in Development Theory and Practice and Research Methodology. She holds a PhD degree
in Economics and has 20 years’ lecturing experience at university level (University of Limpopo and University of Zimbabwe). She has published widely in the areas of economic policy and development, particularly on issues of structural adjustment programmes, trade, industrialization and gender. She
has edited a CODESRIA book on Re-thinking Trade and Development In Africa. She has also published several book chapters and journal articles. Over the last three years, she has been a trainer on the UNDP Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI).

Bertrand Mafouta

 is Director of Training and Communication and Researcher at the Centre for Studies and Research on Analysis and Economic Policy (CERAPE), a research centre based in Congo Brazzaville. He holds

Maxwell Chanakira

 is a telecommunications and management consultant who has worked in the academic and telecommunications sectors of SADC countries for over twenty years. He holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, and has presented and published over 20 papers on strategy issues in telecommunications, energy and development in Africa. He lectures on Strategy and Organisational Leadership at the Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe. His research interests focus on strategy and leadership in private, public and multilateral
organizations in Africa as they relate to telecommunications, energy and development.

Rolando Talampas

teaches graduate Philippine and Asian Studies courses at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines at Diliman (UPD). He has written extensively on Philippines’ trade union history, health issues

Hidayet Siddikoglu

was born in Afghanistan. He is a PhD student at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan. He holds a Master’s degree in International Politics from
Hiroshima University. He was director of Ipakyol, a privately-owned company based in Hiroshima, Japan. Between 2007 and 2009 he created, under Ipakyol, a project to support unemployed Afghan refugees by providing jobs, particularly to refugee women who were skilled carpet weavers.

Tanvir Aeijaz

is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ramjas College, University of Delhi. He has been teaching development studies, public policy and governance to undergraduate and graduate students during the last 14 years. He is an adjunct faculty and associate fellow at the
Centre for Multilevel Federalism (CMF) in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. Recently, he was awarded teacher’s fellow at the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (CSDS) for his work on public private partnership in the health care sector in India. He has been a visiting faculty member in the School of Development Studies for Post-graduate students at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He is joint secretary of the Delhi Chapter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Horace G. Campbell

holds a joint Professorship in the Department of African-American Studies and the Department of Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He is a Special Invited Professor at Tsinghua
University, Beijing. He has just published Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya (Monthly Review Press, 2013). His previous book was Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA (Pluto Press, 2010). He is also the author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation, and Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st Century. His most famous book, Rasta and Resistance: from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is going through its eighth printing. He has published more than 40 journal articles and a dozen monographs as well as chapters in edited books.

Theresa Moyo

 is a Senior Lecturer at the Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo where she lectures in Development Theory and Practice and Research Methodology. She holds a PhD degree
in Economics and has 20 years’ lecturing experience at university level (University of Limpopo and University of Zimbabwe). She has published widely in the areas of economic policy and development, particularly on issues of structural adjustment programmes, trade, industrialization and gender. She
has edited a CODESRIA book on Re-thinking Trade and Development In Africa. She has also published several book chapters and journal articles. Over the last three years, she has been a trainer on the UNDP Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI)

José Luis León-Manríquez

 holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, New York. His research interests include international relations and economic development in Latin America and East Asia. He was a member of the Mexican Foreign Service and Deputy Director of the Matías Romero Institute of Diplomatic Studies. He has been consultant for AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A worldwide lecturer, he is editor or author of nine books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. His newest edited book is China Engages Latin America. Tracing the Trajectory. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City

Theresa Moyo

 is a Senior Lecturer at the Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo where she lectures in Development Theory and Practice and Research Methodology. She holds a PhD degree
in Economics and has 20 years’ lecturing experience at university level (University of Limpopo and University of Zimbabwe). She has published widely in the areas of economic policy and development, particularly on issues of structural adjustment programmes, trade, industrialization and gender. She
has edited a CODESRIA book on Re-thinking Trade and Development In Africa. She has also published several book chapters and journal articles. Over the last three years, she has been a trainer on the UNDP Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI).

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