The Reinhart-Rogoff study identifies only six crisis events of international significance in the past two hundred years, and all but one of those were less severe than the GFC. The others were mostly quite localised, both in their causes and their effects. 4  Kindleberger CP (1978), Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis, Macmillan, London.
Barry Whiteside: Update of the global and Fijian economy Address by Mr Barry Whiteside, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, at the Fiji Economic Update, Suva, 20 August 2013.