About this event
On 13 May 2022, the University of Leeds School of Law’s Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), directed by Professor Peter Whelan, will host its Inaugural Conference on Recent Developments in Insolvency Law.
The annual inflation rate in the US reached 8.4 % in March 2022, the highest in four decades. Latin America shudders at the memory of how Governments controlled inflation then. Are there conditions for a new Volcker shock? What is different four decades later?
A decade of low interest rates in the major currencies and failings in the regulatory oversight of inter- national bond markets have led investors to take more and more risk in their search for higher yields. Non-financial corporations (NFC's) in Latin America have taken full advantage, and their dollar indebtedness is now heavier than for corporations in most other emerging market regions. This paper documents the many warning signs of macroeconomic and financial instability in the region from such indebtedness.
La edición de este año de International Debt Statistics, está diseñado para proporcionar a los usuarios, datos oportunos y completos sobre las tendencias en deuda externa de países de ingresos bajos y medios.
El sistema de información de deudores del Banco Mundial (DRS), desde el cual se agregan la información estadística presentada en este informe, se estableció desde 1951. Esta información ganó popularidad e impacto durante la crisis de deuda de los años ochenta.
