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The Asian financial crisis

Jul 17, 1997 – Jul 2, 1998 · asian-crisis

The crisis showed how fast short-term capital can turn, and the severe austerity conditions attached to the rescue packages remain contested. The consequence was lasting: Asian countries built up large currency reserves as insurance against ever having to ask again — one of the underlying causes of the global imbalances that followed in the 2000s.

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