In asking whether China's growing economic power and international economic
engagement increases or reduces the highly constrained industrial policy space associated …

Pakistan has received a total of 23 loan packages from the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) between 1958 and 2023, and recurrent indebtedness has hindered structural …

This study attempts to investigate the potential for public debt traps in countries in Asia,
especially Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and Timor Leste. This study employs a vector panel …

Africa faces a new debt crisis fuelled by Chinese and Western lending. At the forefront is
Zambia, which defaulted on Eurobond payments in 2020. The article sets the developing …

Strategic and collective efforts are needed from both the creditors and borrowing countries
facing the looming debt crisis, with a full understanding of what are good debts and what are …

There has been a widespread concern over China using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to
pursue 'debt-trap diplomacy'(DTD). This study examines China's rhetorical counter to DTD …

This article addresses the questions of whether, to what extent, and how China contests the
norms and practices for public debt management in developing countries as currently …

ABSTRACT Since the Belt and Road (B&R) initiative was put forward in 2013, China has
signed cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international …

Abstract This chapter introduces David Harvey's theory of spatio-temporal fixes which is
posited as a structural generative mechanism that explains the drive of Chinese surplus …

When can economic inducements, including aid and investment, purchase influence
abroad? I argue that the effectiveness of inducements hinges on the sender's ability to …