This is how the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the Mexican Tequila crisis of 1994, the Asian debt crisis of 1997, and the Russian crisis of 1998 unfolded. It was also how the financial crisis of 2008 2009 transmitted itself to emerging markets.

New Year, Same Crisis

Youth are in crisis.

How to Emerge from the Crisis in 2009

The post crisis projection is 2020.

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

In August 1997, Indonesia was hit by a devastating economic and monetary crisis, which caused the poor more than half of whom are women to increase dramatically to 49.5 million in 1998, while the economy experienced a 14 percent contraction the following year.

The Post Crisis Crises

Not an economic or social crisis, but a spiritual one.

(d) Response to and management of crises

Greek Lessons for Europe

Fondation Internationale Carrefour (Special, 2003)

Unemployment is higher today than it was in the pre crisis period (9.1 percent in 2003 as compared to 4.7 percent in 1997).

While 2011 was supposed to be the year when European leaders finally got a grip on events, the eurozone s problems went from bad to worse. What had been a Greek crisis became a southern European crisis and then a pan European crisis.

Rather than confronting a debt crisis, as in 1997 98, emerging market economies now face an asset crisis, but they will suffer the same result great capital losses on their foreign exchange reserves. Indeed, the magnitude of the losses will be on par with that of Asian financial crisis, if not higher.

The crises of the past year notably those in Haiti and the Sudan's Darfur region made it more urgent for States to improve the means at their disposal to prevent the conflicts that produced refugee flows.

Today s consensus among economists is that the recession is already over, that the US and global economy will rapidly return to growth, and that there is no risk of a relapse. Unfortunately, this new consensus could be as wrong now as the defenders of the V shaped scenario were for the past three years.

A number of crises some regional in nature, as in West Africa, others country specific, as in Darfur have been characterized as crises of protection.

Eight years ago, East Asia was battered by a financial crisis, which in turn had transregional repercussions threatening the health of the global economy.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

These declined owing to the crisis of the mid 1990s.

Crisis equals opportunity.

But every major international crisis since then has chipped away at its authority. The 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis undermined its legitimacy in Asia, as many governments in the region believed that the crisis was being exploited by the United States and US financial institutions.

The financial sector has since made every effort to design instruments that protect against price fluctuations, to transform private debt into tradable financial securities, and to gain access to speculative markets. But these efforts were conducive to fraud and delinquency, and thus spurred a wave of new financial crises in Europe in 1992, in Asia in 1997, and in Russia in 1998 as well as a recession in Europe and the United States in the early 2000 s.

MUNICH The euro has brought a balance of payments crisis to Europe, just as the gold standard did in the 1920s. In fact, there is only one difference between the two episodes During today s crisis, huge international rescue packages have been available.

There is, interestingly, a common thread running through all of these cases, as well as the 2008 crisis financial sectors behaved badly and failed to assess creditworthiness and manage risk as they were supposed to do.

The initial international response to the Darfur crisis in 2003 and the first half of 2004 was limited as the crisis received little international attention, but the response has significantly improved since then.

So, Japan had a fiscal real estate crisis back in the late '80s.

1994 to date Member of Bulgarian delegations for different diplomatic conferences.

In those panics, financial innovation caused uncertainty and nervousness, but also induced an important and beneficial learning process. The financial institutions that survived the crises went on to play a crucial role in pushing further development, and they had enhanced reputations because they withstood a crisis.

We cannot let history repeat itself. If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930 s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.

So crisis leading into opportunities.

The project is intended to help countries in crisis and post crisis in West Africa to achieve the Dakar EFA goals of 2015 deadline.

From Constitutional Crisis to European Crisis

That conclusion would have to be significantly modified in light of the data recorded since the financial crisis. The economic slowdown in 2009, the worst year of the crisis, was nothing short of catastrophic.

GENEVA Europe s slow motion sovereign debt crisis may appear unique, but it is not. Just a few decades ago, Europe had the Exchange Rate Mechanism, which collapsed during a crisis very much akin to the one afflicting Europe today.

Capital controls enabled China to emerge from the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 largely unscathed, even though its financial system was at least as fragile as those of the affected countries. The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

The November 2004 crisis also had a significant impact on the economic situation within the country.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to solve the democracy crisis.

There is jeopardy, and of course, the closer you get, it gets harder.

In a world where capital is free to flow across international boundaries, the crisis in the US has spread to Europe. This is a new form of contagion, which transcends national boundaries and is amplified by an international crisis of confidence.

This is a new form of contagion, which transcends national boundaries and is amplified by an international crisis of confidence. This is why the global problem today is many times greater than the Savings Loan crisis of the 1980 s and 1990 s, which cost American taxpayers an estimated 150 billion to clean up.

Well, the opportunity is real, but so is the jeopardy.

That scarcity led to a crisis in January of this year at the University of Johannesburg.

We're there in 20 years. We have lots and lots of time to avoid that crisis, and the fiscal cliff was just one more attempt at trying to force the two sides to resolve the crisis.