The IMF, Financial Crisis, and Repression of Human Rights

This book seeks to answer a number of key questions about the relationship between the IMF, developing states and the impact of financial crises on human rights abuses, including: Why do some but not other IMF-assisted developing states experience the joint outbreak of currency and sudden reversal crises under the Fund’s program?; What are some of the short-term political ramifications of such crises?; Why do human rights violation by governments increase sharply in the wake of twin currency and sudden reversal crisis in some but not all crisis-affected countries?

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Shadow Banks, the IMF and the Politics of Financial Crisis.- Chapter 3: Financial Crisis, The IMF, and State Repression.- Chapter 4: IMF Programs, Shadow Banks, and Financial Crisis.- Chapter 5: State Repression, the IMF, and Financial Crisis: Empirical Evidence.- Chapter 6: The Fund, Financial Crisis and Repression in Turkey.- Chapter 7: Financial Crisis Prevention and Repression in India and Brazil.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Bumba Mukherjee is Professor of the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, United States.

Vineeta Yadav is Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, United States.