The social and demographic impact of the Southeast Asian Crisis of 1997–99 |
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Authors: | Gavin W Jones Terence H Hull Dennis Ahlburg |
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Institution: | (1) Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, ACT 0200 Canberra, Australia;(2) The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;(3) University of Minnesota, Minnesota |
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Abstract: | When an unexpected financial crisis overtook Southeast Asia in 1997 planners and policymakers feared that the economic difficulties
would unwind two decades of remarkable economic and social development. Newspaper headlines spoke of massive increases in
poverty, unemployment and malnutrition, and it was speculated that family planning programs would collapse and fertility would
rise dramatically. Infant and child mortality and maternal mortality were also expected to increase. This paper briefly reviews
the onset of the financial crisis as a background for assessing whether speculations about die demographic and social effects
tallied with reality. It is found that these effects were neither as dramatic nor as easy to monitor as some of the public
debate implied. The general lesson is that the most serious social and demographic problems were not so much the products
of crisis as embedded in chronic weaknesses that had become entrenched in times of economic growth. The crisis exposed these
weaknesses. |
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