The world's view of East Asian economies has drastically changed since the turmoil that swept the region in mid-1997.
Earlier in the 1990s, the region's rapid economic development was widely hailed as the "Asian miracle."
But the crisis exposed their excessive dependence on exports, vulnerability to currency fluctuation risks and other inherent weaknesses, as well as the deeply rooted problems of "crony capitalism."
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