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    Swimming against the tide: how developing countries are coping with the global crisis

    World Bank, 2009
    The sharp global contraction is affecting both advanced and developing countries.
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    Can developing countries be a new engine of growth?

    INSouth, 2009
    In spite of the global financial crisis, one third of the world economy, the developing world, continues to grow. In part, this has been possible as a result of South-South trade and investment, which has helped insulate emerging market economies from the worst aspects of the turmoil.
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    Initial lessons of the crisis

    IMF Publications, 2009
    At the root of market failure was optimism bred by a long period of high growth, low real interest rates and volatility, and policy failures in: financial regulation, which was not equipped to see the risk concentrations and flawed incentives behind the financial innovation boom; macroeconomic policies, which did not take into account the build-up of systemic risks in the financial system and in h
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    Blue, green or red? A ‘rainbow’ stimulus to tackle global recession

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009
    Political ideologies are often associated with particular colours: blue for conservatism and market forces; green for environmental sustainability; and red for state interventionism. The global financial crisis is putting pressure on the main sources of external revenues for developing countries: exports, remittances, foreign direct investment and equity flows.
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    Global financial crisis & its impact on the South

    INSouth, 2008
    The current global financial system crisis is deeply concerned with the internal motives of capitalism. It means any attempts/measures will bring more inflation, more devaluation of the national currencies, more unemployment, more painful losses of the markets, and lower prices of the export commodities of the developing and poor countries, more unequal exchange.
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    The financial crisis of 2008 and the developing countries

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009
    The crisis that by October 2008 had erased around US$25 trillion from the value of stock markets seems to have been unexpected. This was because it came on the heels of a seven-year period of high growth and originated in the USA; many had expected a global slowdown to start in the emerging markets.
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    Lessons from World Bank Group responses to past financial crises

    Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2008
    The ongoing financial crisis in the United States and other developed countries is spreading to the developing world, middle- and low-income countries alike, threatening years of progress in poverty reduction. Experiences with past crises bring out substantial differences in the effectiveness and results of bank group crisis support.
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    The global economic crisis: assessing vulnerability with a poverty lens

    World Bank, 2009
    While developed countries are currently bearing the brunt of the global economic crisis, declining growth rates combined with high levels of initial poverty make developing countries more vulnerable and more likely to experience its negative consequences in the medium and long-term. But which developing economies are most vulnerable?
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    Reforming the Bretton Woods system for inclusive development and democratic global governance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    The current global financial crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s, may turn out to be an epoch-making event in evolution of global governance.
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    Are there special risks from trade and finance in the 2008-9 recession?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This policy brief warns that risks on trade are very high in the current financial crisis, and discusses some possible ways for reducing them. The paper notes that trade is falling more rapidly than we realise, and the falls are not confined to special sectors.

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