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Mexican Peso crisis
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In 1994 Mexican Peso crisis occur due to devaluation of Mexican peso against us dollar by
14 %.
US Dollar v/s MEICAN peso exchange rate (nov/94 - jan/95)
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Cause of the crises : • lax monetary policy pursued in 1994• over-valued exchange rate of peso • the large scale of the current account deficit,
which had reached almost 8% of GDP in 1993 and 1994
• high proportion of government debt paper was so short-term &high portion of this in non- residents
• Political causes
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Why did the devaluation of the
Mexican peso turn into a financial crisis?
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Impacts of crisis :
• Peso crisis rapidly spill over to Latin American and Asian financial markets
• Most of fund manger liquidated funds due to fear of loosing investments
• Foreign reserves fall down drastically • in 1995 alone, prices rose 35 %and output fell
6.2 %• Mexico’s per capita GDP fell by 5 per cent
during the crisis
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Bail out from crisis :
financial packages of • US$ 50 billion composed of loans from the U.S.
(US$20 billion), • the IMF ($17.8 billion)• the Bank of International Settlements (US$10
billion)• Canada (1 billion of Canadian dollars) • Group of Latin American countries (1 billion
dollars)
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Goals of Assistance:
• Restore financial stability • Strengthen public finances and the banking
sector• Regain investor confidence• Reinforce the groundwork for long-term
sustainable growth
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Lessons from peso crisis :
• It is essential to have multi national safety net to safe guard the world financial system from these type of crisis .
• Mexico excessively depended on the foreign capital to finance its economic development this policy has its own undesirable effects
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