Quoting yours truly, on the domestic political complexities of borrowing from (and potentially defaulting on) resident investors and financial institutions. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

🪟Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote transparency? ➡️J. Hollyer X. Pang @peterrosendorff.bsky.social J. Vreeland show that loan disbursements from the IMF and the WB are positively associated with economic transparency, especially in democracies www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

South African photographer Peter Magubane has died at 91. He documented the crimes of the apartheid state & was imprisoned & banned for doing so. Magubane photographed the Sharpeville Massacre, the Soweto Uprising, the Rivonia Trial, & countless other turning points. May he rest in peace & power.

"The proliferation of private lenders and variety of loan agreements have made debt negotiations impossibly complex...." www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/b... Indeed. (They might've asked some political scientists about the biases in things like, say, the IMF).

The recording of our November 2, 2023 "Ask the Editors" session (with @laynamosley.bsky.social @bashleyleeds.bsky.social @peterrosendorff.bsky.social) is now available: youtu.be/p_nZRrfdW-M

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