1st Edition
Banking Reform in Southeast Asia The Region's Decisive Decade
By Malcolm Cook
Copyright 2008
176 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s and the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. Focusing in particular on the turbulent decade of financial boom and bust from 1994 to 2004, it... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Globalization Arrives 3. Indonesia 4. Thailand 5. Malaysia 6. The Philippines 7. Singapore 8. Globalization Mediated
Biography
Malcolm Cook is the Program Director East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney. Before that, Malcolm worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent much time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Institute, Malcolm ran a consulting practice on Southeast Asian economic reform. His research interests focus on the political economy of North East and South East Asia; East Asian regionalism; and the impact of party and electoral systems on policy reform efforts.
