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Financial Crises and National Policy Issues: An Overview

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In this overview we try to explain, first, why funds continued to flow towards emerging economies while fundamentals in host countries had been deteriorating before the Asian crisis (rising external deficit, with a significant liquid component appreciating exchange rates; low capital formation, particularly in Latin America), and why funding remains dry for long since 1998; the role of the nature of the predominant agents and of a process of flows rather than one shot building of stock of foreign capital are stressed.

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  • Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, 2002. "Financial Crises and National Policy Issues: An Overview," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-81, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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