## Financial Reform: What Shakes It? What Shapes It?

_Economic Issues, July 12, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Ashoka Mody, Abdul d Abiad
- Published: July 12, 2005
- Series: Economic Issues
- Volume: 2005
- Issue: 004
- Pages: 24
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589063556.051

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### Summary
- 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.

### Scope and format
- Authors: Ashoka Mody, Abdul d Abiad
- Publication date: July 12, 2005
- Series: Economic Issues No. 2005/004
- Issue: 004
- Volume: 2005
- Pages: 24
- Format noted: pamphlet; PDF available via IMF eLibrary
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589063556.051
- Stock No: EIIEA035
- ISBN: 9781589063556
- ISSN: 1020-5098

### Analytical emphasis (as described)
- 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.

### Intended audience and use
- 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.

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