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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... rule , it is worth asking to what extent these uncertainties were correlated with the type of political regime . One purported advantage of authoritarian rule is the capacity for deci- sive action . In the past , Suharto had responded ...
... rule of law , more accountability and transparency in government , and both increased inde- pendence and greater accountability in the regulatory process . In Indone- sia , South Korea , and Thailand , these changes extended to a ...
... rule of law was weak , have led some analysts to downplay the significance of legal rules and to celebrate the advantages of informality , private enforcement of contract and the personal connections known in Chinese as guanxi . However ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
BusinessGovernment Relations and Economic Vulnerability | 15 |
The Government | 24 |
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