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Summary
Summary
This timely book examines the effects of financial liberalization in the more advanced economies of Southeast Asia. The book also analyses the degree to which emerging and transitional economies in East and South Asia can benefit from this example. The weakness of the banking sector is examined in order to explain the reasons behind the currency crisis and to prescribe policies to avoid a similar episode in the future.
Further, the book documents the individual steps taken to liberalize the economies over a period of about 20-30 years in each country. The analyses reveal that liberalization led to high growth in economies undertaking such reforms while unwillingness to take such reforms appear to have led to poor growth and hence low social development. This finding contradicts the common belief that liberalization led to the financial crisis and then to growth collapse.
An efficient and liberalized financial sector is an essential precondition for promoting and accelerating economic growth and welfare. Arguments supporting this policy are based on the experience of Southeast Asian economies, particularly the pioneers such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. This has led some less developed countries in East and South Asia to initiate the process of financial sector reforms and to realize the potential benefits of such reforms. The authors analyse the reform process and the lessons to be drawn from the experiences of these economies in their quest for sustained development in East and South Asia.
Author Notes
Mohamed Ariff, Chair of Economics and Finance, Sunway University, Malaysia and Ahmed M. Khalid, Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics, University of Brunei Darussalam
Table of Contents
List of figures | p. vii |
List of tables | p. viii |
Preface | p. xii |
Abbreviations | p. xvii |
Part 1 Liberalization and the Asian Financial Crisis | |
1 Asia's new-found development strategy | p. 3 |
2 The Asian financial crisis | p. 27 |
Part 2 The Early Reformers | |
3 Korea: a case of cautious capital account liberalization | p. 57 |
4 Malaysia: broad-based financial liberalization stopped in its tracks | p. 83 |
5 Singapore: reform towards financial centre status | p. 110 |
6 Indonesia: liberalization amidst persistent exchange rate instability | p. 147 |
7 Taiwan: export-led growth and limited financial-sector openness | p. 172 |
8 Thailand: quite open external sector but poorly managed financial sector | p. 192 |
Part 3 Communists Return to Market Forces | |
9 China: a command economy responding well to market signals for the time being | p. 223 |
10 Vietnam: hesitant transition from command to market economy | p. 255 |
Part 4 The Hesitant Reformers | |
11 Bangladesh: restructuring and liberalization did help | p. 283 |
12 India: a decade of liberalization, a hesitant choice | p. 307 |
13 Pakistan: internally suppressed economy under liberalization | p. 344 |
14 The Philippines: lost opportunities for correction of reforms | p. 376 |
15 Sri Lanka: a case of development regression | p. 403 |
Part 5 The Lessons From Liberalization | |
16 Macroeconomic effects of financial liberalization | p. 429 |
17 Lessons for developing and transitional economies | p. 444 |
Select bibliography | p. 474 |
Index | p. 497 |