The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance

Book Overview

The financial crises across Asia in 1997-98 ignited fierce debate about domestic economic weaknesses and flaws in the international financial system. Some analysts blamed Asian governments for inadequate prudential supervision, widespread failures of corporate governance and even crony capitalism. Others assailed the inherent instability of global financial markets and what they considered to be hasty and ill-conceived liberalization taken at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521790913
• ISBN13: 9780521790918
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"