Podcast

The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Developing Countries - audio

Professor Frances Stewart, Dept of Economics, University of Oxford

In her lecture, the second in the series Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis organised by the Centre for Transnational History at UCL, Prof Stewart compares the current crisis with that of the 1980s, as well as setting up a comparison across countries. She argues among others that the current crisis may be steeper, but arguably more short-lived. She also shows that the current crisis has had very heterogeneous effects …