Curbing the boom-bust cycle : stabilizing capital flows to emerging markets / John Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, John, 1937-2021.

Series:

Policy analyses in international economics ; 75.

Policy analyses in international economics ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business cycles.

Capital movements--Developing countries.

Capital movements--East Asia.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Institute for International Economics, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International investors poured vast sums of money into East Asian and Latin American countries during the mid-1990s, when the emerging market boom was at its peak. Then Thailand stumbled and panic seized the markets, and boom gave way to bust. Investors suffered large financial losses, while Asian countries suddenly experienced large capital outflows and the macroeconomic pressures these wrought plunged countries that had been growing rapidly ( miraculously ) into crisis. Much the same had happened in Latin America when the debt crisis broke in 1982. This book investigates what can be done to make the international capital market a constructive force in promoting development in emerging markets. The author concludes that the problem of cyclicality that has undermined the value of international borrowing cannot be tackled just, or even mainly, from the supply side, but will require actions on the part of both creditors and debtors."

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-121) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-04077-4

9786612040771

0-88132-469-8

1-4416-0427-8

OCLC:

317159444