Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for Emerging Economies

JULY 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis which erupted in 1997 following sudden speculative attacks on the Thai baht. The last decade has witnessed intense debates within scholarly and policymaking circles regarding the exact causes of the crisis, as well as the lessons fr...

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Main Author: Barkha Shah
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-824662020-11-01T07:44:05Z Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for Emerging Economies Barkha Shah S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science JULY 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis which erupted in 1997 following sudden speculative attacks on the Thai baht. The last decade has witnessed intense debates within scholarly and policymaking circles regarding the exact causes of the crisis, as well as the lessons from this painful experience.Recently, however, the focus has shifted to the possibility of another crisis in the near future. The current economic conditions of some Asian economies have been compared with the state of affairs in the run-up to the crisis in 1997, giving rise to some concerns. 2016-02-23T06:35:16Z 2019-12-06T14:56:13Z 2016-02-23T06:35:16Z 2019-12-06T14:56:13Z 2007 Commentary Barkha Shah. (2007). Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for Emerging Economies. (RSIS Commentaries, No. 067). RSIS Commentaries. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82466 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40058 en 067-07 Nanyang Technological University 2 p. application/pdf
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Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for Emerging Economies
description JULY 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis which erupted in 1997 following sudden speculative attacks on the Thai baht. The last decade has witnessed intense debates within scholarly and policymaking circles regarding the exact causes of the crisis, as well as the lessons from this painful experience.Recently, however, the focus has shifted to the possibility of another crisis in the near future. The current economic conditions of some Asian economies have been compared with the state of affairs in the run-up to the crisis in 1997, giving rise to some concerns.
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