The Tenth Anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis
Lessons Learned, Critical Assessments, and Charting the Path Forward
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, D.C.
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Speakers • Sponsors
This year marks ten years since the onset of the Asian financial and
economic crisis. Decades of economic progress in East and Southeast Asia
were jeopardized, as daunting levels of poverty, unemployment, and
social inequality beset the most affected countries -- Indonesia,
Thailand, Korea, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Ten years onwards, it is imperative to re-examine the debates on free
capital mobility in developing countries, the role of international
financial institutions, the structural flaws in domestic banking and
financial sectors, and the macroeconomic policy framework that was used
to respond to the Asian financial crisis.
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Speakers:
Panel I: Remembering the Asian
Financial Crisis: Causes, effects, results, and the lessons
learned
- J. Soedradjad Djiwandono, Former
Governor of Bank Indonesia, and Emeritus Professor of Economics, S.
Rajatnam School of International Studies
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistand Secretary General for Economic Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
- Meredith Jung-En Woo, Professor of Political Science, University
of Michigan
- Chair: John Sewell, Senior Scholar, Wilson Center
Panel II:
The International Financial System and the International Monetary Fund:
Assessing the links between economic and financial globalization
and the Asian financial crisis
- David Burton, Director of the Asia
and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund
- Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy, London School of
Economics and Political Science
- Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy
Research
- Chair: Bhumika Muchhala, Asia Program, Wilson Center
Panel III: Charting the Path
Forward: Identifying policy initiatives amidst new developments in
global and regional political economy
- Worapot Manupipatpong, Principal
Economist and Director, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Secretariat
- Ilene Grabel, Professor and Director, Program in Global Finance,
Trade and Economic Integration, Graduate School of International Studies,
University of Denver
- Nelson H. Barbosa Filho, Secretary of Economic Monitoring, Brazilian Ministry of Finance
- Chair: John Schmitt, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Event Sponsors:
The Center for Economic and
Policy Research, the Asia Program of the
Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation-USA
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