This volume brings together market economists, policymakers, development specialists and academics from developed and emerging market economies to examine the underlying causes of the Asian financial crisis and ways of preventing future crises in emerging markets. Contents and contributors include: The Asian crisis: causes and consequences , by Richard Cooper; A closer look at equity flows to emerging markets , by Michael Barth; Foreign investment in Asia , by Jarrod Wilcox; and Lessons of the Asian crisis for Latin America , by Sebastian Edwards.