... neces-sarily lead to financial crisis otherwise, what can explain the relative insulation from theAsiancrisis for countries such as China and India? In the ten years since theAsian crisis, many scholarly ... analyses on the root causes of theAsian crisis, andthe lessons that need to be learned, is extensive. Scholars and analysts debate a wide diversity of arguments and counter-arguments, and thus, ... Muchhala| 6 | The various participants in theAsiancrisis ranged from Wall Street to Jakarta. Asianand Western governments, the private sector, andthe International Monetary Fund (IMF, or the Fund),...
... Chinese capitalism and local East Asian economies.David Burton, the director for the Asia and Pacific department at the IMF, offers the perspectives of the Fund on thecauses of the crisis. In his ... holdings and have, for the most part, removed themselves from the influence of the Fund. The author writes of the pro-cess through which the authority and credibility of the Fund was further undermined ... financial liberalization, andthe exacerbation of thecrisis to the policies and programs of the IMF. Meanwhile, in her essay Woo describes the financial crisis as a “liquidity crisis, exacerbated...
... from the 1997–98 Asian Debacle?| 27 | the U.S. Treasury, the IMF, the World Bank and elsewhere cite theAsian financial crisis to criticize the preceding “East Asian Miracle” as flawed. The crisis ... liberalization in the East Asian region was the larger context which facilitated processes leading to the crisis. The Asian financial crisis was also exacerbated by the policy con-ditionalities and influence ... recession in the mid-1980s andthe banking crisis that followed, which led to a tight-ening of regulatory control with the Banking andFinancial Institutions Act of 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s,...
... Indonesia U.S. $700 million.3 The basic differences in the arguments and theories about theAsian crisis are hinged to the central question of whether thecauses of the cri-sis originated domestically, ... after the crisis, the Korean won andthe Singapore dollar have recovered 90-95 percent of their respective rates. The Thai baht andthe Malaysian ringgit recov-ered 70 percent of their pre -crisis ... 1998, the rupiah was at the epicenter of the crisis. After the Asian contagion, thecrisis erupted in Russia (1998), Brazil (1998-1999), Turkey (2000-2001) and Argentina (2000-2001).Despite the...
... East Asian economies—especially the South Korean one—regardless of the causes of the crisis, andthe officials of the IMF doing what they were expected to do, pressuring the distressed Asian ... Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia—were more or less back on their feet. Those who had quarreled over thecauses of the financial crisis such as the sister institutions, the World Bank andthe International ... 1998 the East and Southeast Asiancontagion was over, andthe a century after the unparalleled InVasIon: east asIa after the crIsIs Meredith Jung-En Woo is professor of political science at the...
... Press, 1993). Asia andthe International Monetary Fund: Ten Years After theAsian Crisis | 69 |As a result of these changes at both the national and regional level, the strength and resilience ... feel that they have an adequate voice in the Fund—that the Fund is their institution. Asia andthe International Monetary Fund: Ten Years After theAsian Crisis | 65 |region over the past decade ... Economics andthe University of Manchester, and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario. Asia andthe International Monetary Fund: Ten Years After theAsian Crisis |...
... Standards usually benefit some participants more than others. The standards com-ing out from the Basel Committee, the IMF, the FSF, andthe like and the surveillance coming out in line with the ... MIT, and Brown Universities, and previously worked as an economist in the World Bank and in the Office of Technology Assessment in the U.S. Congress. The Aftermath of theAsianFinancial Crisis | ... NIFA proposals, there has been real movement in the area of global economic standardization, such as The Aftermath of theAsianFinancial Crisis | 79 | the standards, through the formal mechanisms...
... 115-27. The Aftermath of theAsianFinancial Crisis | 87 |tries are in constituencies whose executive directors are always from de-veloped countries (like Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy). ... banks. The process of formulating how to strengthen the global financial system after the Asian crisis was disproportionately shaped by the preferences of the de-veloped country states and developed ... Mexican debacle of 1994-95 the “first financial crisis of the twenty-first century.”2 TheAsiancrisis was more serious and surprising than events in Mexico insofar as theAsian economies were hailed...
... precipitated the crisis) , the problem of contagion —a new phe-nomenon as thecrisis spread to Russia and then Brazil, for no clear reason other than the herd behavior of investors andthe pro-cyclical ... see Robert Wade, The Aftermath of theAsian Financial Crisis: From ‘Liberalize the Market’ to ‘Standardize the Market’ and Create a ‘Level Playing Field’” in this volume; and for a discussion ... trade and investment agreements that constrain their ability to pro-tect themselves from and respond to financial crisis. The costs of these | 105 |ma r k we i s B r o tThe Asian financial crisis, ...
... progress and outcome of the implementation of the ABMI. The website also includes Asian bond indicators and an Asian bond monitor. Throughout the various activities of the ABMI, the private ... Jusuf Wanandi, 2005 Ten Years After: The Lasting Impact of theAsianFinancial Crisis | 117 |3. Ha-Joon Chang, Hong-Jae Park and Chul Gyue Yoo, “Interpreting the Korean CrisisFinancial Liberalisation, ... 14, 1998. 10. See Radelet and Sachs, The East AsianFinancial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects” for some of these and other arguments regarding the failure of the IMF to restore market...