Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis
Subtitle: Origins, Lessons, and the Way Forward (Letters of Wilkie Collins)
Contributors: H. W. Arndt (Editor); Hal Hill (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780312223342
Subjects: Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Development - Economic Development; International - Economics; Political Science / Economic Conditions; Asia, Southeastern; Economic Conditions; Economic Policy; Financial crises; Southeast Asia
Description: "Southeast Asia is suddenly in crisis, the largest country - Indonesia - deeply so. This volume, comprising a set of specially commissioned papers, examines the origins, lessons, and future path of the crisis. Why didn't economists foresee the sudden and catastrophic events of 1997-98? How can seemingly robust and vigorous economies fall so far, so swiftly? Do we, in consequence, need to change the way we view the world? Is there anything to salvage of the "East Asian miracle"? Is Southeast Asia about to experience its own version of the "lost decade", analogous to that which afflicted much of Africa and Latin America in the 1980s?"--Jacket.