Getting Chiang Mai right

Asia’s emergency infrastructure is on the right track, but there is still room for improvement

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Asia’s flagship contribution to the global financial safety net is its Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), a regional commitment network of east Asia and South-east Asian central bank swap lines. More has been written about the Federal Reserve’s swap network (or the European Stability Mechanism for that matter) than about the CMIM – because no one has ever used it, owing to numerous design flaws. That may be changing as Asean+3 – the member nations of the Association of Southeast

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