1. Introduction: we need to learn from our experience Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Kunibert Raffer; 2. Managing public debt crisis in Argentina: between sovereignty and subordination Alfredo Calcagno; 3. Why developing countries should not incur foreign debt: the Brazilian experience Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Thiago de Moraes Moreira; 4. Ecuador's 2008-9 debt restructuring: a special case? Adam Feibelman; 5. Greece: an EU-inflicted catastrophe Kunibert Raffer; 6. Grenada: a small island developing state needs new ways out of its debt Juergen Kaiser; 7. Iceland: a human rights sensitive approach to deal with financial crises Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; 8. Indonesia's 1997-8 economic crisis: a teachable case wasted Manuel F. Montes; 9. The Irish sovereign debt crisis post-2009: a lesson on why countries should never enter into unsustainable currency unions Philip Pilkington; 10. Short-term capital controls and Malaysia's fast recovery after the East-Asian crisis Marion Pircher; 11. Sovereign debt: lessons from the Mexican experience Oscar Ugarteche Galarza and Rodrigo Delgado Méndez; 12. Portugal's austerity bailout: lessons of a dangerous experiment José Castro Caldas; 13. Don't waste a serious crisis: lessons from South Africa's debt crisis Daniel D. Bradlow; 14. Lessons from South Korea: a developmental mindset makes a difference when governing the financial economy Elizabeth Thurbon; 15. The Spanish crisis: the trouble of managing debt overhang in an imperfect monetary union José Antonio Alonso; 16. Conclusions: what has been learned? Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Kunibert Raffer.