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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 58–69.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Barcelona evictions mortgage crisis foreclosures indignados housing PORTFOLIO
Ciutat Meridiana, a historically marginalized neighborhood in DOI: 10.1215/07402775-3545894
Barcelona, is isolated from the rest of the city by a freeway.
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 14–19.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., the state weighs in on all sides of the ledger, insuring both a bank’s assets (mortgages and loans) and its liabilities (deposits). State intervention in banking ranges from muscular day-to-day regulation through to crisis-time bailouts, and is an entirely accepted feature of the financial system...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 35–40.
Published: 01 June 2011
... before.” And they said, “Really? How much?” He’s still working on it. WPJ: Wasn’t the very process of monetizing property assets at least part of the cause of the financial crisis, especially in the United States? In developed economies, wasn’t there too much capital— in the form of subprime...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of Africa’s leading NGOs. Although redistribution and allocation of land for housing failed to yield the desired results, one initiative remains that could resolve Nigeria’s housing crisis—part two of El-Rufai’s housing plan, a land swap policy. Under this scheme, the government will grant land...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2011
... school in the nation—simply did not get going seriously until the end of 2009. But the financial crisis, recession risk and jobless rate had all peaked more than six months earlier. Moreover, while Labor's fiscal stimulus was designed to be “timely, temporary and targeted,” it was not tweakable. It could...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 41–49.
Published: 01 September 2000
... are in for a
about the future. Yet ironically, the national hard time, for a long time. If the govern
traits that were once seen as the secret of Ja ment is to be believed, we have already
pan’s economic success—stability, consen mortgaged the standard of living of our chil
sus, and homogeneity—appear...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 74–84.
Published: 01 December 2012
... announcements whenever it announces quantitative easing or the purchase of mortgage-backed securities in its bid to increase employment. Starting with the revelation of Greece’s collapse, every time the euro crisis got worse, the EU’s response has been to underestimate the problem, waste time until things...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of the 1997 crisis over the value of the Thai baht, the government decided to allow the currency to float, all but uncontrollably, when it simply did not have enough hard currency to defend the baht on international markets. The Russian ruble crisis a year later was even more catastrophic, particularly in its...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 70–76.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Europe and elsewhere,” Achour continues. And each town in each country has something to offer. “They’re running a talent show. Each country has its own talent, and that’s what they’re after.” Further north, in a beach house overlooking Tunisia’s postcard perfect Mediterranean coast, the Crisis...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 33–45.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., the bureauc seeking new export markets.
racy, and the economy fled, creating a man The early years also saw some attempts
agement crisis. Thus, Central Asia’s leaders by postcommunist leaders to stand up to
were in the vanguard of those demanding Russia and to address public expectations
that Moscow...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 13–23.
Published: 01 March 2001
... as undersecretary
transfers. in charge of international affairs during the
Mexican financial crisis of 1995 was followed
Breaching the Dike of Secrecy in increasingly close succession by the Asian
It is hard to say exactly how...
