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Financial Times

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Financial Times
Coverage 1978-2007
Works using it 8

Debates

Debate Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 4
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 4
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bond (1998) Financial Times, 31 December 1997 (Soros quotation) 1997 Quotation used to illustrate contemporary view of private international credit allocation.
Bowman (n.d.) Financial Times 1985 article (unnamed US executive quoted) 1985 Anecdotal quote illustrating that disinvestment campaigns consumed corporate boardroom time.
Hackland (1980) Financial Times, 21 June 1978 and 10 January 1979 1978-1979 Source for net capital outflows in 1977-78 and the fall in foreign exchange reserves.
Hirsch (1989) Financial Times and International Financing Review (1986-1987 reports on rescheduling negotiations) 1986-1987 Source for the interim agreement terms, technical committee composition, negotiation breakdowns, and the bankers' economists' mission.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008) Financial Times, September 21, 2007, p. 4, 'Boost for Zuma's Leadership Campaign' 2007 Cited as evidence of mounting ANC rank-and-file pressure for more redistribution, bearing on whether the q or q* regime applies under Mbeki.
Minter (1986) Financial Times (London), 1 July 1986 1986 Source for $6 a ton 'political discount' and about $240 million loss from coal boycotts.
Padayachee (1988) Financial Times (21 April 1987) citing OECD data on international borrowing 1983-1987 Provides international capital market borrowing and bond issue totals and net transfers from developing countries.
Rodman (1994) Financial Times articles (29 Aug 1985; 2 Sept 1985; 25 Nov 1986; 3 Nov 1986) 1985-1986 Contemporary reporting on market sanctions, Pretoria's debt standstill, the hassle factor and the anti-Shell boycott.