... way they have in SEA three major differences become apparent: 1. the presence of an economically strong minority (the Chinese) 2. formation of conglomerates 3. the strong presence of the state in economics In Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia the Chinese play a large part in the economic life and they exert more economic power than any other ethnic group. Conglomerates such as the Salim ... Group or Siam Cement are typical SEA:n results of the 1960-70's boom. Such conglomerates are usually very diversified and tend to dominate especially banking, thereby reversing the traditional role of b...

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... on the policy agenda of emerging market economies. At the very least, sequencing is now seen to be important and capital liberalisation should only follow the establishment of sound supervisory banking procedures and legal infrastructure. At the national level we may be seeing a trend away from automatic pilot' types of market strategy towards more active policies of the types enshrined ... Washington consensus' poses questions concerning the construction of a successor' to the previous consensus and the role it will play in informing future development policy. Moreover, sooner or later...

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... is against government intervention, he believes most of the time government intervention exacerbates problems rather than resolving them. Throughout his book, Friedman uses many examples in different areas of economics to show us the failure of government intervention. Milton Friedman introduces the idea that there is no fundamental difference between economic freedom and political freedom. Taking away one's political ... collude or form monopolies. Other case when government regulates is when there is a scarcity of a service or product. Some economic industries are regulated for safet...

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... a promise has a better chance of enforcing the promise. In this way a chain of promises of higher and higher social validation is created, which could give rise to one theory of banking. At each level of transactions the ! promises to pay of a third party circulate as money value. Those third parties themselves need higher level third parties to clear the payments among ... In the Critique of Political Economy) that the general equivalent theory is capable of resolving all the major problems of monetary theory that were being debated In mid- nineteenth century economics. First, Marx arg...

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