Policy Signals and Market Responses

A 50 Year History of Zambia's Relationship with Foreign Capital
2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-39097-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4777 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

The study presents archival evidence to show how President Kaunda raised political and economic exclusivity in Zambia in the early years of Zambia's independence, and how this retarded capital investment. Despite formal reforms and a new government, this institutional mechanism still dominates and constrains Zambia's political economy today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barton, Stuart John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction and Background
2. What the Literature Already Tells Us
3. Control – Responsibility and Risk (1964-1970)
4. Exclusion – Centralization and Contradiction (1970-1974)
5. Crisis – Decline and Denial (1975-1981)
6. Conditionality – Inertia and Adjustment (1981-1991)
7. Reform – Building Trust and Raising Capital (1991-2005)
8. Inclusion – Stability and Growth (2005-2014)
9. Zambia's 50 Year Relationship with Foreign Capital

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart John Barton is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Doctoral Candidate, and member of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Barton previously worked as a derivatives trader for Barclays Capital and HSBC in London, New York and Hong Kong, and now manages a Commodity Trading Advisor in New York.