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  Proposed strategy for a regional exchange rate arrangement in post-crisis East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article suggests that a coordinated action by East Asian countries to stabilize their currencies against a common basket of major currencies (broadly representative of their average structure of trade and foreign direct investment) would help stabilize both intra-regional exchange rates and effective exchange rates-in a way consistent with the medium-term objective of promoting trade, investm
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  Impacts of the Indonesian economic crisis: price changes and the poor

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Did the recent financial crisis in Indonesia result in dramatic price increases? In the Indonesian case the very poor appear the most vulnerable.
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  Trade and Development Report 2001: Global Trends and Prospects and Financial Architecture

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001

  Report offers an assessment of recent trends and prospects in the world economy, with particular focus on the impact that developments and policies in the industrial economies are likely to have on prospects in the developing world.Chapters cover:The World economy: performance and prospectsInternational trade and financeTowards reform of the international financial architecture:
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  Currency crises and the real economy: the role of banks

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  The article indicates that:typically, analysis of currency crisis emphasise the trade-off between high interest rates and the political costs of devaluing. Usually the debate is framed in terms of a devaluation versus a recession. This is not necessarily valid in the presence of weak banking sector.
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  The fall and recovery of the Cuban economy in the 1990s: mirage or reality

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  The collapse of the Cuban economy following the cessation of Soviet assistance gave way to a strong recovery in 1994-1996.The author proposes three possible explanations for this recovery:that it never took placethat it reflected a surge in productivity resulting from stabilisation and liberalisation in 1993 - 1994that it resulted from a favorable aggregate demand shockT
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  Negative alchemy?: corruption, compositions of capital flows, and currency crises

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This article discusses the relationship between crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors.
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  The debate on the international financial architecture: reforming the reformers

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000

  This paper briefly surveys the progress made in various areas of reform of the international financial architecture since the outbreak of the East Asian crisis, and explains the principal technical and political obstacles encountered in carrying out fundamental changes capable of dealing with global and systemic instability.
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  Economic Crisis in Asia: a Future of Diminishing Growth and Increasing Poverty?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Recovery from the crisis will depend, in part, on increases in Asia’s exports to some of the larger developed markets, like the United States and Western Europe. But developed countries themselves are suffering from the crisis to varying degrees, depending on their trade and financial links with Asia and pre-crisis economic and financial positions.
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  The Social Impact of Adjustment in Tanzania in the 1980s: Economic Crisis and Household Survival Strategies

  Internet Journal of African Studies, 1996

  Provides a theoretical discussion of the key issues of the social impact and a brief account of the Tanzanian economy and the various dimensions of the economic crisis of the 1980s. Then discusses the social impact of adjustment programmes in Tanzania with regard to health, nutrition, education, pressure on women, and responses to the crisis and adjustment . [author]
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  The Asian currency crises: lessons for an early warning system

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1999

  Is it possible to devise a funtioning early warning system for currency crises, and is there a role for the analysis of indicators beyond economic fundamentals? In light of the Asian crisis, the issue is examined both theoretically and empirically.

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