Course Description & Objectives:
- Uneven trade: Uneven trade during the mercantile era; Colonial and Post-colonial periods.
- Financial Crises and Private Capital Flows. These will include the depression of the 1930s, the oil crisis, the Indonesian Pertamina crisis of 1974, the Latin American Crisis, The Asian Crisis.
- The post-World War International Financial Framework: The Bretton Woods System (IMF, IBRD, IFC, ITO), The International Trade Framework (GATT, WTO, Stock Markets).
- Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) and third world development
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