The history of finance capital in Asia as a whole

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• The economic history in general of Asia as a whole

• The history of the Asian fiancial crisis of 1997–1999

Fat Times for Scavengers

By IPS Correspondents, 29 March 1998. Corporate scouts circle like vultures over Asia, hunting for economic bargains. Since last summer, thanks to IMF conditionalities, U.S. investment scouts acquire Asian assets.

IMF’s Asian Bailout Could Open Markets for the Tobacco Giants

By Suein L. Hwang and Michael M. Phillips, Wall Street Journal, 16 December 1998. The Asian economic bailout effort has a controversial side effect: helping open markets in South Korea and Thailand to global tobacco giants.

The Great Global Asset Swindle

By Robin Hahnel, ZNet Commentary, 23 March 1999. An effect of the global economic crisis is that Western multinational corporations and banks are busy buying up the most attractive economic assets the third world has to offer at bargain basement prices.