Asian Financial Crisis 1997
By Khun Seiha, 2012
I. Introduction
In Asian country there are many countries which are most powerful economic and some of those countries were named as “The Asian Miracle” and other countries are named as tiger of Asia. As you see over previous decade some countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia were named as the high economic growth in the world. Singapore‘s economic grown highly about 10% in 1990 to 1993 and up to 16% of GDP in 1994 to 1996. In Thailand, there was over 6% of GDP increase each year in 1990s and up to 9%of GDP in 1995 to 1996. In Indonesia, there was over 4% of GDP in 1992 to 1991 and between 1995 and 1996 is 3% to 4%. In South Korea, the current economic growth was 1-3% of GDP in early 1990s and until 1996 the Korea economic increased up to 6%of GDP in 1996. In Malaysia, there was 6% of GDP during 1990s and increased up to 9% of GDP during 1995-1996. However, there was a crisis happen in 1997 which called Asian Financial Crisis. What is Asian Financial Crisis? Only a short time those countries had problem with financial crisis, that why our group choose this topic to discus and take it as writing assignment. In addition, we choose this topic in order to know what causes that bring to financial crisis, to find out what difficulty did those countries meet during crisis time, by doing this research is to learn and get experience to avoid this situation in case it happens next generation. What is Asian Financial Crisis? How this crisis happened? Moreover, we will explain how those countries (Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia) response to this problem and find out the strategy that they use to deal with. The end we will show what were the implications and lessons that we learn from the Asian financial crisis 1997?
In this paper, we will show three parts. First part we show the introduction which include that reason that we chose this topic, goal and objective, and general information
I. Introduction
In Asian country there are many countries which are most powerful economic and some of those countries were named as “The Asian Miracle” and other countries are named as tiger of Asia. As you see over previous decade some countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia were named as the high economic growth in the world. Singapore‘s economic grown highly about 10% in 1990 to 1993 and up to 16% of GDP in 1994 to 1996. In Thailand, there was over 6% of GDP increase each year in 1990s and up to 9%of GDP in 1995 to 1996. In Indonesia, there was over 4% of GDP in 1992 to 1991 and between 1995 and 1996 is 3% to 4%. In South Korea, the current economic growth was 1-3% of GDP in early 1990s and until 1996 the Korea economic increased up to 6%of GDP in 1996. In Malaysia, there was 6% of GDP during 1990s and increased up to 9% of GDP during 1995-1996. However, there was a crisis happen in 1997 which called Asian Financial Crisis. What is Asian Financial Crisis? Only a short time those countries had problem with financial crisis, that why our group choose this topic to discus and take it as writing assignment. In addition, we choose this topic in order to know what causes that bring to financial crisis, to find out what difficulty did those countries meet during crisis time, by doing this research is to learn and get experience to avoid this situation in case it happens next generation. What is Asian Financial Crisis? How this crisis happened? Moreover, we will explain how those countries (Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia) response to this problem and find out the strategy that they use to deal with. The end we will show what were the implications and lessons that we learn from the Asian financial crisis 1997?
In this paper, we will show three parts. First part we show the introduction which include that reason that we chose this topic, goal and objective, and general information
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