Asia falling? : making sense of the Asian currency crisis and its aftermath

Veteran Asia-watcher Callum Henderson - Standard & Poor's senior authority on the Asian currency market and one of the few insiders to counsel caution during the heady boom days - delivers a first-hand examination of the political and economic events that led to Asia's currency crisis....

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Main Author: Henderson, Callum.
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 1998..
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245 1 0 |a Asia falling? :   |b making sense of the Asian currency crisis and its aftermath   |c Callum Henderson.. 
260 |a Singapore ;  |a Sydney:   |b McGraw-Hill,   |c 1998.. 
300 |a xxi, 303, [ccciv]-cccx;   |c 24 cm.. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a 1. The Objective - Growth at Any Price -- 2. The Hype - Emerging Market Fever -- 3. The Warning - Dollar-Yen Rebounds -- 4. The Precedent - Mexico -- 5. The Catalyst - Thailand -- 6. The Meltdown - One by One -- 7. The Aftermath - Recrimination -- 8. The Banker - Japan's Exposure -- 9. The Fundamentals - Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities -- 10. The Rescue - The IMF, Then Rubin, Then Soros -- 11. The Danger - China Unscathed or the Next Crisis? 
520 |a Veteran Asia-watcher Callum Henderson - Standard & Poor's senior authority on the Asian currency market and one of the few insiders to counsel caution during the heady boom days - delivers a first-hand examination of the political and economic events that led to Asia's currency crisis. Written with clarity and objectivity, and supported by fact-filled case studies of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, this book goes beyond the hyperbole and the punditry to give investors an in-depth, country-by-country analysis of the crisis, and forecast the economic effects on the region; provide policy-level political analysis on governmental actions and reactions that led to Asia's ongoing currency crisis; and outline specific opportunities resulting from the Asian currency crisis and its consequent economic impact. 
650 0 |a Foreign exchange rates --   |z Asia.  
651 0 |a Asia --   |x Economic conditions.  
653 |a Asia 
653 |a Asian financial crisis 
653 |a Foreign exchange markets 
653 |a Exchange rates 
653 |a Economic conditions 
653 |a Macroeconomic policy 
653 |a ASEAN 
653 |a International Monetary Fund 
653 |a Overseas item