World Depression by Third World Default?: The need to link debt guarantees to tri-cycling

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  • Michael Lipton
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debt: major default risks for dc banks, shortage of cash for the lowest-income developing countries (LICs), and uncertainty and high cost of credit for middleincome developing countries (MICs), all require attention; recycling: if OPEC surpluses are not placed in Ides to permit extra imports from des (tn-cycling) Ides will cut their purchases of such imports, and will be driven towards costly borrowing, reduced growth, or IMF loans conditional on domestic deflation; then world demand and incomes would fall.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009