Asian Bond Watch: a 15-year retrospective tells a remarkable growth story
Rewind the clock back to 1998; the Asian financial crisis sparked a massive devaluation of Asian currencies, with many plunging by 30% to 40%. This exposed the danger of taking on short-term foreign-currency debt while relying on long-term local currency-generating assets for repayment – a currency and a maturity mismatch.
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