Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance Queralt Didac
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance Queralt Didac How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit…
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Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance Queralt Didac
How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. Pawned States reveals how easy access to foreign lending at early stages of state building has led to chronic fiscal instability and weakened state capacity in the developing world.Drawing on a wealth of original data to document the rise of cheap overseas credit between 1816 and 1913, Didac Queralt shows how countries in the global periphery obtained these loans by agreeing to "extreme conditionality," which This reliance on external public finance offered emerging nations endless opportunities to overcome barriers to growth, but it also enabled rulers to bypass critical stages in institution building and political development.
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