Asia Falling: Making Sense of the Asian Currency Crisis and Its Aftermath

by Henderson, Callum

• ISBN13: 9780070281486
• ISBN10: 0070281483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL BOOK COMPANY

Summary

This up-to-the minute critique is packed with solid recommendations for investors, providing policy-level political analyses on the actions and reactions that have led to Asia's currency crisis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(4)
Introduction	xi
1 The Objective--Growth at Any Price	1	(14)
2 The Hype--Emerging Market Fever	15	(14)
3 The Warning--Dollar- Yen Rebounds	29	(30)
4 The Precedent--Mexico	59	(22)
5 The Catalyst--Thailand	81	(30)
6 The Meltdown--One by One	111	(40)
7 The Aftermath--Recrimination	151	(18)
8 The Banker--Japan's Exposure	169	(22)
9 The Fundamentals--Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities	191	(58)
10 The Rescue--The IMF, Then Rubin, Then Soros	249	(8)
11 The Danger--China Unscathed or the Next Crisis?	257	(18)
Conclusion	275	(10)
Emerging Asia Chronological Developments	285	(26)
Notes	311	(6)
Bibliography	317	(2)
Index	319