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The Asia Financial Crisis: 20 Years Later
Asia's financial crisis in 1997-1998 saw many of the region's currencies slump, stock markets crash, banks fail, and a regime topple. What legacies have been carried forward?
Asia's financial crisis in 1997-1998 saw many of the region's currencies slump, stock markets crash, banks fail, and a regime topple. What legacies have been carried forward into its major economies today, and what lessons has Asia yet to learn? We'll hear from the players who lived through it, and the BBC correspondents who bore witness.
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