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Why Are Latin American Crises Deeper Than Those in Emerging Asia, Including That of COVID-19?

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  • Herrero, Alicia Garcia

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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global economies with unparalleled negative shock. Asia and Latin America have gone through a number of financial crises in the last few decades but they have addressed those crises rather differently, leading to different growth trajectories after the shocks. We take a closer look at the past crises in Latin America and Asia, such as the Latin American balance-of-payment crisis in the 1980s and a number of Latin American banking crises in the 1990s and compare them with the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and draw lessons on their differences and the policy responses to shed some light on the situation today with the pandemic. All in all, Latin American countries are challenged with worse debt dynamics and more limited access to dollar liquidity. Asia, instead, seems to have developed a much more resilient macroeconomic framework as well as larger self- and regional insurance.

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  • Herrero, Alicia Garcia, 2021. "Why Are Latin American Crises Deeper Than Those in Emerging Asia, Including That of COVID-19?," ADBI Working Papers 1221, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:adbiwp:1221
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    3. Bȩdowska-Sójka, Barbara & Kliber, Agata, 2022. "Impact of COVID-19 on sovereign risk: Latin America versus Asia," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).

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    Keywords

    Latin America; emerging Asia; external funding; international crisis;
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    JEL classification:

    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems

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