The Political Economy of the Asian Financial CrisisInstitute for International Economics, 2000 - 272 pagine The Asian crisis has sparked a thoroughgoing reappraisal of current international financial norms, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund, and the adequacy of the existing financial architecture. To draw proper policy conclusions from the crisis, it is necessary to understand exactly what happened and why from both a political and an economic perspective. In this study, renowned political scientist Stephan Haggard examines the political aspects of the crisis in the countries most affected--Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Haggard focuses on the political economy of the crisis, emphasizing the longer-run problems of moral hazard and corruption, as well as the politics of crisis management and the political fallout that ensued. He looks at the degree to which each government has rewoven the social safety net and discusses corporate and financial restructuring and greater transparency in business-government relations. Professor Haggard provides a counterpoint to the analysis by examining why Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines escaped financial calamity. |
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... efforts to calm business and middle - class fears ( Far Eastern Economic Review , 14 May 1998 , 14-24 ) . Despite his populist rhetoric , his policy pronouncements were surprisingly conservative and market- oriented . His approach to ...
... efforts , but as of early 2000 , the agency had appointed administrators for 53 companies . But the risk with Danaharta is that its relatively long life span may result in the effective warehousing of assets , with high costs for the ...
... efforts was an important IMF policy shift toward support for a more accommodative fiscal stance . Again , a top priority was achiev- ing food security through a targeted program of distribution of rice to poor families ; this program ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
BusinessGovernment Relations and Economic Vulnerability | 15 |
The Government | 24 |
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