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  Social protection in a crisis: Argentina’s plan Jefes y Jefas

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of Argentina’s main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The Jefes programme aimed to provide direct income support for families with dependents who had lost their main source of earnings due to the crisis. In order to assess the impact of the programme, the paper asks:who got assistance?
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  Indicators and analysis of vulnerability to currency crisis: synthesis report

  Thailand Development Research Institute, 2002

  Only a few years before the onset of the economic crisis in 1997, the East Asian miracle was a model put up for developing countries to follow, so could the East Asian economic crisis have been anticipated? The nature of the East Asian crisis pointed to indicators that could have been good early warning indicators that were not taken seriously enough before the crisis.
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  Reactions to the Thai economic crisis: informed critique of globalisation or utopia?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Thailand’s economic meltdown in 1997 challenged assumptions of the inexorable triumph of globalisation. The recovery package promoted by the IMF galvanized an unlikely coalition of civil society actors to vehemently condemn the Thai model of capitalist industrialization. What does civil society have to offer in its place? How realistic are the proposed remedies?
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  Older and wiser – lessons from Argentina on healthcare for the elderly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How should health services in Latin America respond to the needs of the rapidly growing elderly population? Healthcare for older people in the region emphasises curative rather than preventative medicine. Governments prefer to invest in a few flagship hospitals rather than local clinics or community programmes.
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  Currency crises: the policy fallout

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What seems most disturbing about the Asian crisis is that it happened to countries that had been so successful for a long period. Successful not just in economic growth but also in terms of rapidly growing exports, low rates of inflation, high rates of savings and relatively equitable distribution of wealth.
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Why currency crises happen

  International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2002

  This report develops an explanation of currency crises in terms of the most basic concepts of economic theory, supply and demand—in this case, the supply of, and demand for, a currency.
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  Financial reform: what shakes it? What shapes it?

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper assesses financial sector reform, in particular the shift towards liberalised financial systems. It attempts to explain why all countries experienced long stretches with no policy change, and why, occasionally, previous reforms were reversed.
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  Monetary policy and financial sector reform in Egypt: the record and the challenges ahead

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2001

  This paper discusses Egypt’s efforts to achieve stabilisation during the first half of the 1990s. It looks at the sources and consequences of the recent pressures on the external position and the policy responses.
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  Corporate bankruptcy system and economic crisis in Korea

  Korea Development Institute, 2002

  After the economic crisis broke in 1997, Korea undertook a piecemeal reform of the corporate bankruptcy system, maintaining the existing legal framework intact. So what, if anything, did the reforms achieve?

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