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After the Crisis: The Social Contract & the Middle Class in East AsiaA Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report on the impact of the Asian Financial Crisis on the emerging middle class by Nancy Birdsall & Stephan Haggard (PDF format)
Asia After the 1997 Contagion & America's Roles
Byung-joon Ahn's paper for the Asia Foundation's Task Force on America's Role in Asia (2001)
The Asia Crisis - Causes, Policy Responses and Outcomes
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Andrew Berg (Oct. 1999)
Asia's Economic Downturn: Prospects for Reform in Economics & Governance
One of the Asian Perspectives Seminar Series (Jan. 1998)
The Asian Crisis
KD Group Consulting's "questions & answers to the causes of & the cure for the The Asian Crisis"
The Asian Crisis: Economics Papers on Asian Growth
Compiled by Kar-yiu Wong of the University of Washington
The Asian Economic Crisis: Policy Choices, Social Consequences & the Philippine Case
Three essays for Asia Society's Asian Update Series (Feb. 1999) by Linda Y. C. Lim, Frank Ching, & Bernardo M. Villegas, with selected references
The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences & Ways Forward
The views of Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of UNIFEM, & Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network
Asian Financial Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities
May 1998 Harvard China Review conference: panel reviews & keynote summary
The Asian Economic Downturn: Two Years Beyond the Crisis
One of the Asian Perspectives Series (Sept. 1999)
Asian vs. International: Structuring an Asian Monetary Fund
Jeffrey Lewis' essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Autumn 1999)
Back to Basics: Policies & Strategies for Enhanced Growth & Equity in Post-Crisis East Asia
Speech by Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Chief Economist (July 1999)
Causes of & Solutions to the Recent Economic Turmoil in the Asian Region
Speech by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Jan. 1999)
Characterizing Exchange Rate Regimes in Post-Crisis East Asia
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Taimur Baig (Oct. 2001)
Chronology of the Asian Currency Crisis & Its Global Contagion
Frequently updated compilation of news sources by Nouriel Roubini
Corporate Leverage, Bankruptcy, and Output Adjustment in Post-Crisis East Asia
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Se-Jik Kim (Oct. 1999)
Crisis in Asia: Regional & Global Implications
December 1997 issue of IMF's World Economic Outlook
Currency Crisis and Contagion - Evidence from Exchange Rates and Sectoral Stock Indices of the Philippines and Thailand
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Jun Nagayasu (March 2000)
East & Southeast Asia Revisited: Miracles, Myths, & Mirages
Paper by Kamal Malhotra, Co-Director, Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, Thailand
East Asia Crisis Workshop at IDS
July 1998 workshop with agenda & PDF versions of many papers & contributions online
East Asia in the Aftermath - Was There a Crunch?
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Swati R Ghosh & Atish R Ghosh (March 1999)
The East Asian Crisis: Investigating Causes & Policy Responses
A World Bank Policy Research Working Paper in International Economics (1999)
The East Asian Financial Crises: An Analytical Survey
Downloadable study by Pablo Bustelo
East Asia's Impact on Regional Growth in California
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, January 15, 1999
East Asia's Recovery Gathering Force: An Update
A World Bank regional brief (September 18, 2000)
The Economic Crisis in East Asia: Causes, Effects, Lessons
Paper by Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network
Economic Crisis in Southeast & East Asia
Asia House Essen's list of resources in English & German
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Center for Pacific Basin Studies Working Papers
Economic research on the Asian financial crisis & other topics in PDF format
A Feminist Perspective on the Asian Miracle & Crisis: Enlarging the Conceptual Map of Human Development
Presentation by Thanh-Dam Truong at First Global Forum on Human Development (July 1999)
Frontline: the Crash
Online report by PBS's Frontline on the global financial crisis of 1998: video clip of Thailand's meltdown & its impact on the Asian crisis; timeline; reports; interviews, etc.
The Interest Rate-Exchange Rate Nexus in the Asian Crisis Countries
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Gabriela Basurto & Atish R. Ghosh (Feb. 2000)
Global Economic Prospects & the Developing Countries 1998/99: Beyond Financial Crisis
World Bank report critical of handling of Asian financial crisis by IMF & US Treasury
The IMF after the Asia Crisis: Merits & Limitations of the "Long Term Development Partner" Role
An Institute for Development Policy & Management Finance & Development Working Paper by Paul Mosley (June 2000)
Institute of Development Studies: The East Asian Crisis
Papers presented at international conference (7/98)
Lending Booms, Real Estate Bubbles and The Asian Crisis
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Charles V. Collyns & Abdelhak S. Senhadji (Feb. 2002)
Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Presentation by Takatoshi Kato at First Global Forum on Human Development (July 1999)
Managing Financial Crises - The Experience in East Asia
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Jack Boorman et al. (June 2000)
Mitigating the Human Impact of the Asian Crisis: the Role of UNDP
A report offering guiding principles & policy lessons "to inform the work of UNDP in assisting the affected countries" (Sept. 1999)
Monetary Policy in the Aftermath of Currency Crisis: The Case of Asia
IMF working paper
The New York Times: The Financial Crisis in Asia
Coverage & analysis of the crisis by the New York Times (free registration required)
Out There News: Country by Country Guide Asia's Economic Crisis
Articles on individual countries
Papers on the East Asian Financial Crises
Papers in English & Spanish by 3 scholars of Complutense University of Madrid: Pablo Bustelo, Clara GarcÃa & Iliana Olivié (PDF format)
Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the "Hollow Middle"?
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Leonardo F. Hernandez & Peter J. Montiel (Nov. 2001)
Project Finance in Asia: Prospects for the Near Term
Tsugumichi Watanabe's essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Spring 2000)
Prospective Deficits & the Asian Currency Crisis
A World Bank Policy Research Working Paper on Macroeconomics (Aug. 3, 1999)
Restoring Global Financial Stability
Official U.S. views & policies, archived on the Public Diplomacy Query (PDQ) database
The Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis
Report from the International Labor Organization, with online & downloadable versions
The Social Impacts of Asian Financial Crisis: Policy Challenges & Lessons
Jong-Wha Lee & Changyong Rhee's paper for UNDP (Jan. 1999)
Social Science Japan: The Financial Crisis in Asia
Special issue of newsletter (8/98) published by the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Speculative Attacks in the Asian Crisis
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper by Zhiwei Zhang (Nov. 2001)
Tax Policy and the Asian Crisis
An International Monetary Fund Policy Discussion Paper by David Nellor (Feb. 1999)
Washingtonpost.com: Asia Broken Lives Series
Occasional articles on the social effects of the region's economic turmoil
WashingtonPost.com: Asian Economies Report
Latest story; overview; key stories; time line
What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis
An IMF working paper by Rupa Duttagupta & Antonio Spilimbergo (Dec. 2000)
What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis
Joseph Stiglitz's article for the New Republic, critical of the International Monetary Fund, particularly for its response to the Asian Financial Crisis
Yahoo! Full Coverage - Asian Economy
News stories & related Web sites