How did the Asian countries avoid the debt crisis?
Author InfoHusain, Ishrat Abstract Economic stability, sound macroeconomic policies, and appropriate microeconomic incentives hold down a country’s external debt burden. Most of the Asian countries pursued prudent macroeconomic policies, paid attention to price stability, and minimized price distortions. These countries avoided the overvalued exchange rates and uncompetitive interest rates that caused massive capital flight from Latin American and some African countries. The author contrasts Asian country debt crisis behavior with that of 12 highly indebted Latin American and African countries. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
