The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis
Publisher: Institute for International Economics
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780881322835
Subjects: Central government policies; Macroeconomics; Political economy; c 1990 to c 2000; Finance; Economic Policy; Regional Economics; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Financial crises; Economic Conditions; Economics - Theory; International - Economics; Case studies; ASIA
First sentence: Rapid lending growth, an increase in corporate leveraging, declining returns on capital, and weaknesses in the financial sector contributed to the vulnerability of the most seriously affected countries well before the Asian financial crisis actually broke.