Asia in Crisis or GAIA Connections

Asia in Crisis: The Implosion of the Banking and Finance Systems

Author: Philippe Delhais

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Asia's economic growth astonished the world. The region's stock markets soared to new heights, unprecedented economic growth rates were recorded and an acquisitive new middle class emerged. Then overnight, it all fell apart. The question now being asked is: Who brought the party to an end?. "In this penetrating and thoughtful account, Philippe Delhaise points the finger squarely at Asia's antiquated banking and financial systems. Everything else - the currency panics, the social and political shocks - is simply a stream of consequences flowing from the main source. What is exceptional about the crisis is not that it happened but the manner in which it came about, inflicting indiscriminate devastation to all.

Far Eastern Economic Review - Dan Biers

...[P]uts the blame squarely on weak banks that could not keep up with the region's phenomenal growth. Delhaise wins no awards for prose — after all, he hammered out the book in just 10 weeks and the subject is banking. But it's an informative read....Delhaise has written a book that is valuable as a primer to why so many of Asia's banks collapsed. It is also a useful contribution to the debate about what should be done to rebuild those crippled institutions.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Asia Panic	11
Ch. 2	Crime and Punishment	33
Ch. 3	Bank Accounting in Asia	47
Ch. 4	Thailand	81
Ch. 5	Korea	101
Ch. 6	Indonesia	123
Ch. 7	Malaysia	143
Ch. 8	The Philippines	161
Ch. 9	Other East Asian Countries	177
Ch. 10	The Cure	195
Ch. 11	Conclusion	223
	Chronology of the Asian currency and stock market panic	243
App. 1	Summary of IMF Executive Board discussions on Indonesia, Korea and Thailand	259
App. 2	Definitions of ratios	261
App. 3	BIS captial ratios	263
App. 4	Figures and ratios by country	264
	References	273
	Index	275

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Gaia Connections: An Introduction to Ecology, Ecoethics, and Economics

Author: Alan Miller

Miller's writing style makes the book easy to pick up and difficult to put down. Written at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, it is an important and valuable acquisition for academic libraries. —Choice