Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field research across China and Latin America, Stephen Kaplan finds that China's patient capital endows national governments with more room to maneuver in formulating domestic policies. The author goes on to evaluate the potential costs of Chinese financing, raising the question of how Chinese lenders will react to developing nation's ongoing struggles with debt and dependency. By disaggregating the structure of international finance, Globalizing Patient Capital has significant implications for the rise of China in Latin America, offering new insights about globalization and showing the costs and benefits of state versus market approaches to development.
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Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field research across China and Latin America, Stephen Kaplan finds that China's patient capital endows national governments with more room to maneuver in formulating domestic policies. The author goes on to evaluate the potential costs of Chinese financing, raising the question of how Chinese lenders will react to developing nation's ongoing struggles with debt and dependency. By disaggregating the structure of international finance, Globalizing Patient Capital has significant implications for the rise of China in Latin America, offering new insights about globalization and showing the costs and benefits of state versus market approaches to development.
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Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

by Stephen B. Kaplan
Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

by Stephen B. Kaplan

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China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field research across China and Latin America, Stephen Kaplan finds that China's patient capital endows national governments with more room to maneuver in formulating domestic policies. The author goes on to evaluate the potential costs of Chinese financing, raising the question of how Chinese lenders will react to developing nation's ongoing struggles with debt and dependency. By disaggregating the structure of international finance, Globalizing Patient Capital has significant implications for the rise of China in Latin America, offering new insights about globalization and showing the costs and benefits of state versus market approaches to development.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781316863640
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Stephen B. Kaplan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America (Cambridge, 2013).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: China's Latin American Bankers; 2. The Emergence of Chinese Patient Capital; 3. Globalizing Patient Capital: A Theoretical Framework; 4. The Political Economy of Chinese Finance; 5. Chinese Financing and Latin American Fiscal Space; 6. Public Procurement's Check on Fiscal Expansion; 7. International Loans with Commercial Strings Attached; 8. Conclusion: A Dynamic Creditor-Debtor Relationship.

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Advance praise: 'Today's integrated capital markets provide great opportunities for, and impose tight constraints on, governments in the developing world. In Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America, Stephen Kaplan provides a careful analysis of how and why Latin American governments have responded to the contemporary international economic environment. He shows, with cross-national statistical analysis and careful case studies, that governments respond to both international financial and domestic political pressures. Globalization can constrain national policies, but it does so within a domestic political context. This is a careful, thoughtful study that will be of great interest to scholars and students of Latin America, and of the political economy of development more generally.' Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University

'Why have governments on the left in Latin America adopted surprisingly conservative macroeconomic policies? Kaplan offers a sophisticated explanation of when and why we have seen this shift. By focusing on the internal political dynamics of financial market actors, he makes a convincing - yet nuanced - argument about the power of bond markets to shape government policies in a globalized world.' Kathleen McNamara, Georgetown University

'In an era of financial openness, some developing countries enjoy more autonomy vis-à-vis capital markets than others. Why? Stephen Kaplan convincingly suggests that the ways in which governments finance their debt and the ways in which political elites view their country's economic history both play a role. In nations that have experienced inflationary crises and that borrow via bonds (rather than from banks), conditions are ripe for a 'political austerity cycle'. Kaplan's analysis points to the importance of both ideational and material factors, and of both domestic and international forces, on elites' behavior in contemporary Latin America.' Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

'In this deeply insightful and original book, Stephen Kaplan not only offers a fresh interpretation of how global financial markets constrain domestic policy makers in developing countries, but he explains the conditions under which these constraints are more or less confining. This is a first-rate contribution to the study of the political economy of democracy and development, and it breaks new ground in understanding how domestic policy choices are conditioned by international financial dependence.' Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University

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