We like to think that there is a lot of expertise in Asian affairs in Australia among our policy-makers, in our universities and in our press, and that therefore an Australian perspective could have interest for a wider audience.
Forecasting economic crises The events in Asia over the last 18 months have raised again the issue of whether it is possible to forecast economic crises. The international community went through the same self-examination after Mexico in 1994, and a large amount of research was done on the subject much of it by the IMF. It sounds as though it should be easy.