OECD Financial Statistics / Financial Market Trends

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	OECD
Coverage	1970-1987
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Hirsch (1989)	OECD Financial Market Trends, Vol 27, March 1984; OECD Financial Statistics Monthly, 1987, No 10 (international borrowing data, Table 3)	1974-1987	Shows the shift from medium/long-term bank loans to bonds and the absence of publicly recorded issues after 1986.
Padayachee (1988)	OECD Financial Statistics, International Markets (various monthly issues) – foreign bank credits (medium and long-term) to South African borrowers, 1970-1985	1970-1985	Table 1 gives annual medium and long-term foreign bank credits to South African borrowers, showing the 1973-76 and 1982 surges.