Financial Markets and Development
Subtitle: The Crisis in Emerging Markets
Contributors: Alison Harwood (Editor); Robert E. Litan (Editor); Michael Pomerleano (Editor)
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780815734970
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Development economics; Investment & securities; Monetary economics; Transitional economies; Financial crises; Capital market; Banks and banking; Politics/International Relations; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Finance; East Asia, Far East; South East Asia; Congresses; Development - Business Development; Economics - Theory; Asia; International - General
Description: "This volume brings together market practitioners, policymakers, development specialists, and academics from developed and emerging market countries to examine the causes of the crisis in emerging markets and explore measures to prevent future crises.

The papers address emerging market policy issues, and offer some solutions, on topics such as the growth of Asian emerging markets, corporate governance and the treatment of minority shareholders, and prospects for foreign investment in emerging markets."--BOOK JACKET.