Do you remember this?
The Asian Financial Crisis is an embarrassing episode in our history; the mighty tigers turned into sick kittens. This photo is the epithet of that period. The mighty Camdessus looked on the broken Suharto, reminiscing the old days of colonialism.
Throughout the next week or so, if time permits, I wish to revisit the fall, or hiccup, of Southeast Asian economies, including Malaysia, in the late 1990s. Please stay on and we will learn together what went wrong and answer some what-if questions.
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[…] away. He continued by saying nobody knew what exactly caused the crisis. But ten years after Camdessus looked on Suharto, we might have learned a thing or two from the […]
looking forward to it. ;)