Policy brief is posted!

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

Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.

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:

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Last call for registration (info below) for our "Ask the Editors" session tomorrow, with @bashleyleeds.bsky.social, @laynamosley.bsky.social and @peterrosendorff.bsky.social. Join us!

We look forward to answering your questions about publishing in IO at our Ask the Editors session tomorrow. Please join us! (Registration link below.)

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Likely true; FWIW result is robust to controlling for "friend of US".

The BRICS collectively now have 14.29% voting share. New evidence shows that friends of the BRICS now experience (relative to prior to the 2010 quota reform) reduced conditionality (the # of prior actions). This is not a China effect alone, but for the group as a whole.

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