Financial crises--Asia--Congresses -- Capital market--Asia--Congresses

This volume bring together market practitioners, policymakers, development specialist, and academics from developed and emerging market countries to examine the causes of the crisis in emerging markets and explore measures to prevent future crises. The papers address emerging market policy issues, and offer some solutions, on topics such as the growth of Asian emerging markets, corporate governance and the treatment of minority shareholders, and prospects for foreign investment in emerging markets. Market practitioners, policymakers, development specialists, and academics from developed and emerging market countries examine the underlying causes of the Asian financial crisis and ways of preventing future crises in emerging markets. The book thenn moves to suply-side issues: foreign investement in Asia, the future of emerging market investing, lessons learned from East Asia and Latin America, the role of the World Bank in this crisis, and, finally, a fascinating paper on prospects for the future.