Asian Economic and Social Review

28/09/2011

http://www.globalasia.org/About_Global_Asia/Economics_Security_and_Foreign_Affairs_in_Southeast_Asia.html

07/09/2011

29/08/2011

What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part I: A Macroeconomic Overview

http://www.nber.org/papers/w6833

The paper explores the view that the Asian currency and financial crises in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even if market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices, and economic activity to be more severe tha...

29/08/2011

Ten Years After: The Lasting Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/ten-years-after-the-lasting-impact-of-the-asian-financial-crisis/

This article argues that the most important long-term impact of the East Asian financial crisis, a decade later, has been that it began a process that led to the collapse of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF's) influence over middle-income countries.

18/08/2011

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan’s biggest bank by market value, has announced its first quarterly profit in the past nine months as the recession abates.

http://www.asiaecon.org/special_articles/read_sp/12950

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan’s biggest bank by market value, has announced its first quarterly profit in the past nine months as the recession abates.

18/08/2011

Asian equities showed a general decline over the past week, with only Singapore and Jakarta avoiding negative territory, although Hong Kong was not far off joining them as it showed more strength than fellow Greater China market Shanghai.

14/08/2011

Asian stocks declined for a third week after Standard & Poor’s Rating Service cut the U.S. credit rating and as concern grew Europe’s debt crisis will spread, sparking speculation the global economic recovery will weaken.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-12/asian-stocks-fall-for-a-third-week-amid-economic-growth-earnings-concerns.html

Asian stocks declined for a third week after Standard & Poor’s Rating Service cut the U.S. credit rating and as concern grew Europe’s debt crisis will spread, sparking speculation the global economic recovery will weaken.

11/08/2011

http://sae.sagepub.com/

09/08/2011

As a result of the earthquake and tsunami, Japan’s real GDP growth will slow, but the slowdown will likely be temporary. Growth should start picking up after mid-2011 as reconstruction efforts get underway.

09/08/2011

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Asia Times Online. The Asia News Hub providing the latest news and analysis regarding economics, events and trends in business, economy and politics throughout Asia.

09/08/2011

The American government won't go bankrupt, China won't sell its holdings of US Treasuries, and the world's Asian growth epicenter isn't going to roll over and die. The bubble that has now been popped represents a liquidity event, not a true crisis in the mode of 2008, and the end of the road for the overstretched and over promised hedge fund industry.

08/08/2011

The swift evaporation of the Asian economic "miracle" probably ranks second only to the unraveling of Soviet socialism as the greatest surprise of the last half-century. All at once, convention has been turned on its head as South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia line up for multibillion-dollar bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

http://www.ifg.org/imf_asia.html

With strong encouragement of the IMF and World Bank, many Asian countries followed a three-pronged strategy for attracting foreign capital: liberalization of the financial sector (i.e. elimination of restrictions on capital flows); maintenance of high domestic interest rates in order to suck in port