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  A currency basket for East Asia: not just China

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005

  China recently announced that it is adopting a basket of currencies as the peg for its exchange rate instead of the US dollar. This move raises the question of whether such a currency basket could be adopted in other East Asian countries.
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  Financial market reform: lessons from East Asia

  Global Development Network, 2004

  The 1997 Asian crisis exposed both weaknesses in domestic policies and institutions as well as deficiencies and uncertainties of the international financial system.
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  Financial reforms in Asia since 1997: lessons and responses

  Global Development Network, 2004

  The Asian financial crisis of 1997 was characterized by a combination of several inter-related processes of which included the appreciation of dollar pegged exchange rates, declining exports, arbitrage of domestic and international interest rate differentials in liberalized capital account regimes, reckless financial intermediation, asset price collapse, and debt defaults.
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  What might the next emerging-market financial crisis look like?

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005

  This paper asks the hyphothetical questions: if a financial crisis affecting a group of emerging economies were to take place sometime over the next three years, where would the crisis likely originate, how could it be transmitted to other economies, and which economies would be most affected by particular transmission or contagion mechanisms?It presents set of indicators to gauge the vulnerab
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  Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.
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  The Argentinean debt: history, default and restructuring

  Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2005

  This paper analyses some of the processes that led to the Argentinean debt default and its subsequent restructuring.
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  Capital flows and financial crises: a comparative analysis of East Asia (1997-98) and Argentina (2001-02)

  Faculty of Economics, Complutense University, Madrid, 2004

  The paper provides a comparative analysis of the Asian and the Argentinian financial crises, in order to better understand their cause and triggers.Findings of the comparative analysis include:common features of both crises included financial liberalisation, massive capital inflows, inadequate allocation of credit and large short term external debtthe Asian crises displayed a great
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  Contractionary currency crashes in developing countries

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper was presented as the Mundell-Fleming Lecture at the IMF Annual Research Conference. This paper begins with the question of why currency contractions are so politically costly? According to the author, updating a previous statistic, a political leader in a developing country is twice as likely to lose office in the 6 months following a currency crash as otherwise.
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  A decade of development thinking

  2004

  This paper surveys the economic development of Latin America across a ten year period from 1994 to 2004. Throughout the region, economic volatility, low growth, employment, poverty, and inequality have been priority development concerns.
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  Systemic crises and growth

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  Given the fact that over the last two decades, countries that have experienced financial crises have on average grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions, this paper explores the link between occasional financial crises and the growth rate of a country.The study finds that: there is a robust link between systemic risk and growth: fast growing countries tend to experie

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