首页
登录
职称英语
(1)Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generaliz
(1)Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generaliz
游客
2023-11-27
17
管理
问题
(1)Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizing. Each country is different, they say, and no one story fits all of Asia. This is, of course, silly: all of these economies plunged into economic crisis within a few months of each other, so they must have had something in common.
(2)In fact, the logic of catastrophe was pretty much the same in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea.(Japan is a very different story.)In each case investors—mainly, but not entirely, foreign banks who had made short-term loans—all tried to pull their money out at the same time. The result was a combined banking and currency crisis: a banking crisis because no bank can convert all its assets into cash on short notice; a currency crisis because panicked investors were trying not only to convert long-term assets into cash, but to convert baht or rupiah into dollars. In the face of the stampede, governments had no good options. If they let their currencies plunge, inflation would soar and companies that had borrowed in dollars would go bankrupt; if they tried to support their currencies by pushing up interest rates, the same firms would probably go bust from the combination of debt burden and recession. In practice, countries split the difference—and paid a heavy price regardless.
(3)Was the crisis a punishment for bad economic management? Like most cliches, the catchphrase "crony capitalism" has prospered because it gets at something real: excessively cozy relationships between government and business really did lead to a lot of bad investments. The still primitive financial structure of Asian business also made the economies peculiarly vulnerable to a loss of confidence. But the punishment was surely disproportionate to the crime, and many investments that look foolish in retrospect seemed sensible at the time.
(4)Given mat there were no good policy options, was the policy response mainly on the right track? There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong; now there is a race to claim credit when some things have started to go right. The International Monetary Fund points to Korea’s recovery —and more generally to the fact that the sky didn’t fall after all—as proof that its policy recommendations were right. Never mind that other IMF clients have done far worse, and that the economy of Malaysia— which refused IMF help, and horrified respectable opinion by imposing capital controls—also seems to be on the mend. Malaysia’s Prime Minister, by contrast, claims full credit for any good news—even though neighbouring economies also seem to have bottomed out.
(5)The truth is that an observer without any ax to grind would probably conclude that none of the policies adopted either on or in defiance of the IMF’s advice made much difference either way. Budget policies, interest rate policies, banking reform—whatever countries tried, just about all me capital that could flee, did. And when mere was no more money to run, me natural recuperative powers of the economies finally began to prevail. At best, the money doctors who purported to offer cures provided a helpful bedside manner; at worst, they were like medieval physicians who prescribed bleeding as a remedy for all ills.
(6)Will me patients stage a full recovery? It depends on exactly what you mean by "full". South Korea’s industrial production is already above its pre-crisis level; but in the spring of 1997 anyone who had predicted zero growth in Korean industry over the next two years would have been regarded as a reckless doomsayer. So if by recovery you mean not just a return to growth, but one that brings the region’s performance back to something like what people used to regard as the Asian norm, they have a long way to go. [br] What can we infer about IMF policy recommendations from the passage?
选项
答案
They were far from a panacea in all cases.
解析
第4段谈到了IMF对亚洲国家的作用。其中,由第3句可知IMF的政策对韩国的经济复苏起到了促进的作用,但接下来提到别的IMF成员国情况却很糟,而没有采用IMF政策的马来西亚的经济在好转中(on themend),这说明IMF的政策并非放之四海而皆准的,因此答案可表述为They were far from a panacea in an cases。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3224014.html
相关试题推荐
InChina,violenceagainstmedicalpersonnelisontheriseasthedoctor-pa
TheCubistmovementinartwasareactionagainsttraditionalmethodsofportray
(1)Punditswhowanttosoundjudiciousarefondofwarningagainstgeneraliz
(1)Punditswhowanttosoundjudiciousarefondofwarningagainstgeneraliz
(1)Punditswhowanttosoundjudiciousarefondofwarningagainstgeneraliz
PASSAGETHREE[br]WhatisUnesco’sexplanationfortheAmerica’svotingagainst
TheCubistmovementinartwasareactionagainsttraditionalmethodsofportray
他支持这个建议,但我反对。Heisforthesuggestion,butIamagainstit.
InChina,violenceagainstmedicalpersonnelisontheriseasthedocto
BelowareagraphontuitionincreaseintheUSandanexcerptarguingagainst
随机试题
[originaltext]M:YouknowIwillbethemaintalkerintheclassroomdiscus
一卡诺机,当它被作为热机使用时,两热源的温差越大对热变功就越有利。当被作为制冷机
( )表示的是货币时间价值的概念。A.币值 B.贴现 C.终值
可干扰病毒复制的是A.IFNB.ILC.TNFD.CSFE.GF
A.汞滴定法B.分光光度法C.库仑电量分析法D.离子选择电极法E.火焰光度法最早
发生急性胆囊炎时体征呈阳性的是A:Murphy征 B:Charcot三联征
下列关于建筑外保温材料选择的说法,不正确的是()。A.当采用建筑外墙与基层墙体、
在许多医患矛盾中,患者都反映医师的态度比较冰冷,对这种现象你怎么看?
关于方剂配伍的目的,描述不恰当的是A.增强药力产生协同作用 B.消除药
某汽车生产制造企业,厂区内新建有办公楼、组装车间、锅炉房和库房等,其中特种设备设
最新回复
(
0
)