Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis
José Antonio Ocampo and José Antonio Alonso
Abstract
This book revisits the causes of the 2008 global economic collapse, re-evaluating the international response to the crisis and suggesting more effective approaches to development cooperation. It explains how leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. The book argues that, while these measures were productive in and of themselves, they were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweepi ... More
This book revisits the causes of the 2008 global economic collapse, re-evaluating the international response to the crisis and suggesting more effective approaches to development cooperation. It explains how leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. The book argues that, while these measures were productive in and of themselves, they were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. The volume then shows that, unfortunately, international coordination has weakened after these initial steps. It therefore argues that one of the crisis' adverse effects will be a significant reduction in development cooperation. In response to this challenge, the book redesigns the international cooperation system and its governance, so that it can accept new actors and better achieve the Millennial Development Goals of 2015 within the context of a severe global crisis. Overall, the book provides an assessment of global economic imbalance and the potential of increased cooperation to rectify these inequalities.
Keywords:
2008 global economic collapse,
economic crisis,
Millennial Development Goals,
development cooperation,
international coordination,
global financial reform
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780231159661 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231159661.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
José Antonio Ocampo, editor
Columbia University
José Antonio Alonso, editor
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