The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia

by Klaus Schwab and Jeffrey D. Sachs

This book analyzes the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1999. In addition to the issues of financial system restructuring, export-led recovery, crony capitalism, and competitiveness in Asian manufacturing, it examines six key Asian economies--China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The book makes clear that there is little particularly Asian about the Asian financial crisis. The generic character of the crisis became clear during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262692457
• ISBN13: 9780262692458
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher