BFM Podcast

Asian Financial Crisis: Malaysia Defying the Odds

Tan KW
Publish date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017, 02:18 PM

P. Gunasegaram, Independent Consultant and Columnist

24-Jul-17 11:44

 

During the Asian financial crisis  20 years ago, several Asian countries were brought to their knees as a result of the financial turmoil.  P. Gunasegaram, Independent Consultant and Columnist, shares with us 10 lessons from the Asian financial crisis and what did Malaysia did right. 

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GGecko

read last week's the edge magazine - special pull out on the Asian Financial Crisis 1997/1998: lessons learnt, good reading materials, really good

2017-07-24 17:03

Junichiro

By the time the capital controls came into force, an important event took place. The Fed lower its interest rates n in response the currencies of those affected countries which did not implement capital controls such as Thai Bath, Won, Rupiah etc went upwards bringing the episode to an end.

2017-07-25 09:37

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