Comments: Mexico as a Benchmark Case
Author: Guillermo Ortiz Martínez1
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Language:
English
Keywords:
BOOK; crisis; financing; exchange rate; market; financial system; IMF policy advice; IMF Policy recommendation; IMF reform; emerging market crisis; emerging market country; Exchange rates; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Capital flows; Currencies; Global; Asia and Pacific; East Asia; Europe; Southeast Asia; equilibrium exchange rate; market participant; IMF support package; confidence crisis; Mexico crisis; Exchange rate flexibility; Inflation; Commercial banks

Abstract

Ito’s paper starts with the premise that the IMF’s programs for Asia have been a failure, without setting a benchmark for what a successful IMF program is. I would like to propose such a benchmark, the 1995 Mexican program that, to many analysts, was successful in confronting what has been called the first crisis of the twenty-first century. Table 1 summarizes the main macroeconomic aggregates in Mexico and Asia during the IMF programs.

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