Capital controls enabled China to emerge from the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 largely unscathed, even though its financial system was at least as fragile as those of the affected countries. The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

The Asian financial crisis illustrated how easily a crisis can spread from country to country as economies and markets become more integrated by trade and investment links.

But every major international crisis since then has chipped away at its authority. The 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis undermined its legitimacy in Asia, as many governments in the region believed that the crisis was being exploited by the United States and US financial institutions.

This is how the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the Mexican Tequila crisis of 1994, the Asian debt crisis of 1997, and the Russian crisis of 1998 unfolded. It was also how the financial crisis of 2008 2009 transmitted itself to emerging markets.

The main lesson of the Asian financial crisis or, for that matter, of any financial crisis is that deflation is the ultimate threat to recovery. Because the 1997 crisis was confined to East Asia, China was able to escape deflation after it joined the World Trade Organization.

Finally, both Indonesia (after the Asian financial crisis of 1997) and Turkey (after its 2001 crisis) are recent examples of Muslim majority countries that decisively overcame economic mishaps while dealing with major domestic political transitions.

We had the financial crisis, and some of the factors cited by Bernanke have substantially reversed. For example, Asian investment is booming again, led by China.

The Financial Stability Forum, created after the Asian financial crisis as an informal coordinating body the United States resisted anything stronger was renamed the Financial Stability Board. A board sounds more impressive, authoritative, and permanent than a mere forum.

An increase in US interest rates is not necessarily bad news for emerging countries. Many developing countries especially in Asia are in much better macroeconomic shape than they were just before the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s or at the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis.

But there are serious pitfalls to avoid in this process. As the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 demonstrated, capital account liberalization could lead to financial meltdowns a danger that opponents of internationalizing the renminbi often cite.

At the same time, China was slow to open up its financial system even as other East Asian economies pursued efficiency by liberalizing their capital accounts in the 1990 s. As a result, when the Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, China was insulated from the volatility that ravaged its fragile neighbors.

Systemic weaknesses, such as those which created the Asian financial crisis, and initiatives taken in the region to correct them, such as the Chiang Mai Initiative, also received special focus.

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Rather than confronting a debt crisis, as in 1997 98, emerging market economies now face an asset crisis, but they will suffer the same result great capital losses on their foreign exchange reserves. Indeed, the magnitude of the losses will be on par with that of Asian financial crisis, if not higher.

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It is concerned that social welfare schemes, which were reduced as a result of the economic hardship of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, have not been readjusted as the economy has regained its momentum.

The Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 had a great impact on the poor particularly women, which prompted the Government to design several support programs to assist women generate income from the following activities, namely

Asian countries have learned from their region s own crisis in the 1990 s, as well as from the eurozone s ongoing crisis, that effective management of cross border capital flows requires well constructed national, regional, and global responses. To respond effectively to crises, East Asian countries must continue to improve the regional financial safety net and surveillance mechanism, while strengthening their cooperation with the IMF.

As Europe s crisis deepens, the twin channels of financial and trade linkages have placed Asia s economies in a vice. Rebalancing is the only way out for China and its partners in the Asian supply chain.

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Investment flows have recovered, reaching the annual average for the years prior to the Asian crisis.

BERKELEY There has never been a question about the ultimate purpose of the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI), the system of Asian financial supports created in 2000 in that Thai city. That purpose, of course, is to create an Asian Monetary Fund, i.e., a regional alternative to the International Monetary Fund, whose tender ministrations during the 1997 98 financial crisis have not been forgotten or forgiven.

Indeed, many developing countries, fearful of losing their economic sovereignty to the IMF as occurred during the 1997 Asian financial crisis accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves. Money put into reserves is income not spent.

We have a lifelong emotional and financial commitment to our Asian Elephant partners.

In fact, China knows full well that currency wars are self defeating. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China s economic situation was much worse than it is today, but the government still resisted the temptation to devalue the renminbi and the country managed to emerge from the crisis virtually unscathed.

During the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, the renminbi s stability played an important role in stabilizing the region. So, too, the renminbi s stability has helped the region maintain strong growth, from which the world as a whole benefits.

If a high import intensity of export orientation evolves among developing countries, a possible vulnerability may stem from the import intensity of export orientation being financed by short term lenders as evidenced by the East Asian financial crisis.

In 1985 and 1998, Singapore was affected by, respectively, a major economic recession and the Asian economic crisis.

The exceptional financial crisis called for an exceptional response.

Frankly, I am always struck by US economists reluctance to discuss the structural problems that caused the current crisis, and that hinder America s recovery. Most seem to believe that the crisis result from bad monetary policy and lax financial sector regulation some even blame the savings accumulated by Asian countries, especially China.

The principal culprits in the crisis were, rather, lax supervision and regulation of US financial institutions and markets, which allowed unsound practices and financial excesses to build up. China did not cause the financial crisis

BEIJING In theory, the difference between capital inflows and outflows in developing countries should be positive they should be net capital importers, with the magnitude of the balance equivalent to the current account deficit. Since the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, however, many East Asian countries have been running current account surpluses and hence have become net capital exporters.

Moreover, since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the region s emerging economies have increased their holdings of foreign exchange reserves, and now possess more than half of the world s total. Seven of the world s top ten reserve holding economies are in Asia.

It would almost certainly help reduce the risk of an early repeat of the financial crisis. The obvious candidates to replace them are Chinese and other Asian consumers, whose combined economies are more than equal to that of the US.

During the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, East Asia s economies paid heavily for excessive accumulation of dollar denominated debts. Because governments failed to defend their currencies, they lost hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves to international speculators.

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