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1997 - 1998
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Economic success
• Annual GDP growth in the ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) averaged close to 8% over the decade before the crisis
• Almost half of total capital inflows to developing countries– nearly $100 billion in 1996
• inflation & unemployment rates both low
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Ramifications
• Negative consequences– Environmental degradation– growing inequality between rich and poor– rampant corruption– social malaise
• Significant and real benefits– great majority of the people’s living standard– have not been erased by the crisis
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Weaknesses in financial system
• inadequate financial sector supervision
• poor assessment and management of financial risk– growth of bad loans– state-directed lending
• relatively fixed exchange rates
• violent asset price cycles– property boom bubbles
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Weaknesses in financial system
• Large amounts of short-term international capital, denominated in foreign currency
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Corruption
• Transparency International’s 1999 survey of corruption– Singapore 7th– Malaysia 31st– South Korea 50th– Philippines 54th crisis countries– Thailand 68th– Indonesia 96th
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Diary of the crisis: I
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Diary of the crisis: II
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The cause of capital outflows
• Bank failure in Thailand
• Corporate failure in Korea
• Political uncertainty due to the potential for a change in government in Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia
• net outflow of $105b from Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and the Philippines between 1996 and 1997
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The cause of capital outflows
• Contagion effects hit Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia
• The IMF’s intervention actually helped to incite panic
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Causes of financial crisis
• macroeconomic imbalances
• structural deficiencies in financial sector
• loss of market confidence
• rising political risk
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IMF's immediate response
• Help Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand arrange programs of economic stabilization and reform
• Approve IMF financial support for reform programs in Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand
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IMF’s immediate response
• Consult with other members that needed to take policy steps toward off the contagion effect
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Asian programs
• comprehensive reform of financial systems
• closure of unviable financial institutions– associated write down of shareholders' capital
• recapitalization of undercapitalized institutions
• close supervision of weak institutions
• increased potential for foreign participation in domestic financial systems
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Reforms in governance
• break the close links between business and governments
• ensure that the integration of the national economy with international financial markets is properly segmented
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Real GDP Growth (%)
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Inflation rate (%)
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GDP growth rate (%)
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Impact on Japan
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Impact on World
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Three schools of thought
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Three schools of thought
• Revisionist: “developmental state”– Market must be mediated, regulated and
guided by the state
• Culturalist– “Asian values”– Culture context of East Asia explains the
miracle
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Recovery from the Crisis
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Lessons from the Crisis
• Better information
• Regulation and restraint
• Controlling capital flows
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International Organizations
• Authority vis-à-vis sovereign governments
• Access to information
• Risk of ``creating” a crisis
• Globalization and interdependence