书目名称 | Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control |
副标题 | The Middle East and |
编辑 | Ali Coşkun Tunçer |
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丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance |
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描述 | This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914. During this period, capital flows in the form of sovereign debt increased rapidly throughout the region. The spiral of heavy government borrowing eventually culminated in defaults on foreign obligations in the Ottoman Empire (1875), Egypt (1876), Greece (1893) and Serbia (1895). In all four cases, introducing international financial control over the finances of the debtor states became the prevalent form of dealing with defaults. The different cases of international financial control became increasingly refined and they marked important milestones in the evolution of the global governance of sovereign debt before 1914. For the defaulting states however, the immediate impact of international financial control was infringement of sovereignty. The extent of international financial control and the borrowing capacity of debtor states varied in each case as well as the degree of resistance towards it. This book documents the characteristics of international financial control in a comparative perspective. It relates sovereign debt, default and international financial control to |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Financial history; sovereign debt; default; public finance; political economy; The Ottoman Empire; Egypt; S |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378545 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-37854-5Series ISSN 2662-5164 Series E-ISSN 2662-5172 |
issn_series | 2662-5164 |
copyright | Ali Co?kun Tunçer 2015 |