Financial Reform: What Shakes It? What Shapes It?

Economic Issues, July 12, 2005

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Financial sector liberalization was high on the agenda of policymakers during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
The pamphlet examines the factors triggering—or impeding and even reversing—financial reform in 35 economies, both industrial and developing.
Focus areas identified in the source metadata: Banking crises, Economic sectors, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Multilateral development institutions.
Keywords noted by the source include: Banking crises, country, East Asia, EI, Financial sector, further reform, Global, government, government ideology, ideology, Labor Party government, liberalization, Multilateral development institutions, policy reform, reform, reform process, South Asia.

Comparative examination across 35 economies of factors that:
- trigger financial reform;
- impede financial reform;
- reverse financial reform.
Comparative coverage includes both industrial and developing economies.

Policymakers and analysts interested in the forces shaping financial-sector liberalization and reform processes during the late twentieth century.
Relevant to studies of banking crises, government ideology effects on reform, and multilateral development institutions’ roles.

International Monetary Fund — Financial Reform: What Shakes It? What Shapes It?