30 year run of high growth rates. It is hard to understand what these declines will actualy do to the world market. The crisis has caused Asian currencies to fall 50-60%, stock markets to decline 40%, banks to close, and property values to drop. The crisis was brought on by currency devaluations, bad banking practices, high foreign debt, loose government regulation, and corruption. Due to East Asia's large impact on the world economy, the panic in Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and other Asian countries has prompted other countries to worry about the affect on their own economies and offer aid to the financially troubled nations.

The countries that are included in the East Asian crisis, known as "Tiger" economies, are Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. For these countries to participate effectively in the exchange of goods, services, and assets, an international monetary system is needed to facilitate economic transactions. To be effective in facilitating movement in goods, services, and assets, a monetary system most importantly requires an efficient balance of payments adjustment mechanism so that

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or risky assets such as real estate ventures. A lack of transparency-in the form of unreported mutual guarantees in group companies, lack of disclosure of companies'

In Korea, the Bank pledged up to $10 billion as part of a $57 billion package to provide liquidity. Within two days of the crisis, the Bank fielded a team of experts, and within three weeks designed and presented to its board a $3 billion economic reconstruction loan that was disbursed the same day. The loan laid out the framework forpolicy changes in the financial sector, corporate governance, and competition policy. As part of the adjustment program, we are working with the government on policies that will incorporate social protection and support workers temporarily displaced during the crisis. A new Structural Adjustment Loan of $2 billion was approved by the Bank's Board on March 27, 1998, to support the implementation of reforms in the financial and corporate sectors and competition policy.

the real victims of the collapse of "globalisation" in Asia, are the same people who were the victims of the "miracle". Their low wages, or incomes from farming, are now devalued by 25% - 55%. Millions of casual construction workers are idle across the region. And now hundreds of thousands of public sector employees and finance sector workers are being sacked as the IMF enforces government budget cuts, bank and finance company closures.

Re-invigorating growth will require deep-seated reforms focusing on policies and institutions that affect the behavior of the private sector. These include policies toward

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