Asian Economic Crisis 97/98 - Issues in Macroeconomic Imbalances, Capital Outflows and Financial Crises

Introduction – Explanation of vocabulary Employed
1. Macroeconomic Overview
2. Balance of Payments and Debt Problems

Introduction
1. How Should International Financial Markets Be Understood?
2. Are Capital Controls Effective?
Conclusion

1. Why is a Financial Crisis a Problem?
2. Responses to a Financial Crisis
3. Responses by Individual Countries
4. The Distress of Asian Economies – Evaluating Responses
5. Conclusion

Introduction
1. What is the IMF?
2. Three Major Roles of the IMF
3. Proposals
Supplementary Article – What is Conditionality?

Introduction
1. The Technocrat’s IMF Program without the IMF: Before October 8
2. Cooperation between the Technocrats and the IMF: from October 8 to January 6
3. The Confrontation between Soeharto and the IMF: January 6 to May 21
4. The Indonesian Government and the IMF: from May 21
5. Conclusion

1. The IMF Support for Korea and What Lay Behind It
2. Until the Present: the Current Problem is Measures Against Tight Lending
3. Recent Measures
4. Issues Remaining

1. Thailand’s Economic Reform under the IMF Policy Conditionalities
2. Plans for Financial Sector Restructuring and Consolidation of Financial Institutions

1. From the Asian Crisis to a World Crisis
2. Summary of Our survey
3. Economic Reconstruction as a Part of Worldwide Reflation Policies
4. The Japan and Japan’s Role