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The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect, raising fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. [1]
The Hong Kong economy officially slid into recession in the final quarter of 2008. The economy is predicted to grow at 2 percent in 2009. Hong Kong is an advanced tertiary economy built on services, retail, tourism, transport and financial industries.
On October 27, 1997, a global stock market crash was caused by an economic crisis in Asia, the "Asian contagion", or Tom Yum Goong crisis (Thai: วิกฤตต้มยำกุ้ง). The point loss that the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered on this day currently ranks as the 18th biggest percentage loss since the Dow's creation in ...
South Korean IMF Agreement; Date: 02.11.1997: Duration: 1997-2001 (3 Year) Location: South Korea: In November 1997 during the Kim Young-sam administration, Korea received funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to a lack of foreign exchange reserves.
2007–2008 financial crisis; Great Recession (worldwide) 2000s energy crisis (2003–2009) oil price bubble; Subprime mortgage crisis (US) (2007–2010) 2000s United States housing bubble and 2000s United States housing market correction (2003–2011) 2008–2010 automotive industry crisis (US) 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis
The Four Asian Tigers (a.k.a. the Four Asian Dragons or Four Little Dragons in Chinese and Korean) are the developed Asian economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. [1] Between the early 1950s and 1990s, they underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth rates of more than 7 percent a year.
The samba effect is a nickname for the financial crisis in Brazil in 1999 where there was a 35% drop in the value of the Brazilian real.The effect was caused by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which led Brazil to increase interest rates and to institute spending cuts and tax increases in an attempt to maintain the value of its currency. [1]
One of the most significant events in the history of the Malaysian economy was the Asian financial crisis, which caused Malaysia's GDP to shrink from US$100.8 billion in 1996 to US$72.2 billion in 1998. The Malaysian economy's GDP did not recover to 1996 levels until 2003. [17] The year 1997 saw drastic changes in Malaysia.