AMRO Chief Economist’s Live Chat with Reuters: 20 Years after the Asian Financial Crisis

In a live chat with editors and readers of the Reuters Global Markets Forum, AMRO Chief Economist Dr Hoe Ee Khor said Asian policy makers took the lessons of the AFC crisis to heart and implemented very painful reforms to strengthen the economic fundamentals and the macroeconomic framework.

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Building a More Resilient Region after the Asian Financial Crisis

Lessons learned from the Asian Financial Crisis 20 years ago suggests that global and regional coordination has become more important in preventing and managing a crisis, as highlighted by experts at a seminar organized by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) and hosted by the Bank of Thailand (BOT) on June 12, 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Reformed and Resilient Asia 20 Years after the Asian Financial Crisis

Two decades after the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), the ASEAN+3 region has become more resilient but it is once again tested with new global uncertainties, as highlighted by experts at a seminar co-organized by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) and Bank Indonesia Institute on June 5, 2017, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Speech by Dr Yoichi Nemoto, AMRO Director, at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Centre on Asia and Globalisation

Introduction 1. Thank you Chair for the excellent introduction. It is an honour to be invited to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy to share my views on ASEAN+3…

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