Sovereign Debt Crises What Have We Learned?

Introduction: we need to learn from experience / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Kunibert Raffer -- Managing public debt crisis in Argentina : between sovereignty and subordination / Alfredo Calcagno -- Why developing countries should not incur foreign debt : the Brazilian experience / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Thiago de Moraes Moreira -- Ecuador's 2008-09 debt restructuring : a special case? / Adam Feibelman -- Greece: an EU-inflicted catastrophe / Kunibert Raffer -- Grenada : a small island developing state needs new ways out of its debt / Juergen Kaiser -- Iceland : a human rights sensitive approach to deal with financial crises / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky -- Indonesia's 1997-98 economic crisis : a teachable case wasted / Manuel F. Montes -- The irish sovereign debt crisis post-2009 : a lesson on why countries should never enter into unsustainable currency unions / Philip Pilkington -- Short term capital controls and Malaysia's fast recovery after the East-Asian crisis / Marion Pircher -- Sovereign debt : lessons from the Mexican experience / Oscar Ugarteche and Rodrigo Delgado -- Portugal's austerity bailout : lessons of a dangerous xperiment / Castro Caldas -- Don't waste a serious crisis : lessons from South Africa's debt crisis / Daniel D. Bradlow -- Lessons from south korea : a developmental mindset makes a difference when governing the financial economy / Elizabeth Thurbon -- The Spanish crisis : the trouble of managing debt overhang in an imperfect monetary union / Jos Antonio Alonso -- Conclusions: what has been learned? / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Kunibert Raffer -- Index