The Asian Financial Crisis: Crisis, Reform and Recovery

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7 countries respond to the crisis? What role did the IMF play?. Why did China, which suffers many of the same structural problems responsible for the crisis remain conspicuously insulated from the turmoil raging in its midst?. What explains the remarkable recovery now underway in Asia? In what fundamental ways did the Asian crisis serve as a catalyst to the current thinking about the "new international financial architecture"?. This book provides answers to all the above questions and more, and gives a comprehensive account of how the international economic order operates, examines its strengths and weaknesses, and what needs to be done to fix it.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Author: Shalendra Sharma
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 07/10/2003
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780719066030

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 960

About the Author

Shalendra Sharma is associate Professor of Political Science at the University of San Francisco