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African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(26), pp. 10286-10293, 28 October, 2011
Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM
DOI: 10.5897/AJBM10.1697
ISSN 1993-8233©2011 Academic Journals




Review

        Causes and effects of economic crisis in history
                                           Ahmet DINC* and Fatih CURA
                        Faculty of Economics, Administration Science, Ishik University, Erbil, Iraq.
                                                   Accepted 31 January, 2011

    The economic crisis which started in the U.S. (one of the biggest economies of the world) has spread all
    over the world. Wavelength made it global by affecting financial market. We analyzed crisis under three
    main titles in this study: Firstly, we studied economic crisis in history; secondly, we analyzed causes of
    recent global crisis; and thirdly, we analyzed the effects of financial crisis on developed and developing
    countries. There are some similarities in the causes and effects of economic crisis on Ottoman Empire
    in the 1929s, and in the recent one. This study’s aim is to highlight the importance of economic crisis
    through an historical process. Economic crisis signified its destructiveness in the last four years like in
    history. The cause of the last crises was identical, but its effects were at different severities as
    compared to the different economic levels of several countries. It was seen that the recent crisis’ effect
    was more severe in developed countries than in developing ones, such that the world’s production
    decreased, unemployment rate increased, and lots of corporations went into bankruptcy.

    Key words: Global crisis, cause, effect, history, world economy.


INTRODUCTION

When we look, in retrospect, at economic theory, it is            If a boom or crisis is as a result of spending or price
accepted that the economy never grows smoothly. Any               shock, GNP will be away from its potential. In this
country’s economy may enjoy several years of                      situation, the government should interfere with the
exhilarating economic expansion and prosperity; although          economy to speed the return to its potential. So, the
this situation cannot go on forever. This accomplishment          government uses monetary policy (money stock) and
might be followed by a recession, depression or financial         fiscal policy (taxes and spending) to solve the economic
crisis. When the economy faces recession, depression or           problem as demand shocks (Hall and Taylor, 1991).
a financial crisis, the national output falls, profits and           Causes and effects of crisis, which have occurred in
incomes decline, unstable price of goods and services             various times in history, can be similar or identical. For
occur and unemployment rates jump to uncomfortably                example, the crisis that took place in Ottoman Empire
high levels, after which the economy reaches its lowest           had internal and external causes, such as: the
ebb and the recovery begins. This situation can be                purchasing power and national income which decreased
termed as “Business Cycles”, where the economic                   due to the invasion of the American silver and the British
fluctuations seen in the total national output, income and        and Dutch alternative trade route to Ottoman Empire.
employment generally last for a period of 2 to 10 years,          These causes are similar with those of the recent one,
marked by widespread expansion in most sectors.                   such as: the failure to pay on time loans collected from
However, the upward and downward movements in                     banks due to mortgage internally, and the imbalance of
national output, inflation level, interest rate and               consumption and production of the world externally.
unemployment rate form the business cycle which                   Secondly, according to Genc who is a Turkish historian,
characterizes the whole market economy (Paul and                  the main reason for crisis is war because crisis and war
William, 2001). In order to give right political advice,          occurred at the same time since the 17th century. The
economists should know the causes of boom and crisis.             USA’s total cost of war in Iraq is predicted to be very
                                                                  much, or maybe more. This can be another reason why
                                                                  the American economy is weak. Crisis in history and
                                                                  crisis in immediate history has a common similarity.
*Corresponding author. E-mail: ahmet24dinc@hotmail.com,           However, the unskillful labor force is another reason for
da29tr@yahoo.com. Tel: +9647507065012.                            crisis in Ottoman Empire. In the study’s opinion, this
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reason is also valid for the recent financial crisis.          price increase of the American silver deeply affected
Someone who is responsible for the economy of any              social order (Oz, 1997).
country should have foresight and take precautions. We             However, precautionary measures, taken to unravel the
have to comprehend well the importance of crisis,              dissolution, can give us information about the effect of
because Ottoman Empire and USSR have fallen down               reforms.
due to crisis. Soviet Union had negative GNP as -15%               We observed that solutions were proposed in the
(Turan, 2007) in 1990 and -8% (Sancak, 2009) in 1993;          Asaf-name book by Lutfi Pasha for the increased rate of
as such, it could not catch the speed of technological         bribe and the decreased rate of purchasing power due to
development and its old system could not be integrated.        the deteriorating economy. To solve this problem,
Nonetheless, crisis in the stage of history is going to be     educated, sophisticated and a skillful labor force should
analyzed subsequently.                                         be appointed, and the official who heads a provincial
                                                               treasury and Mukataa should be given emanet instead of
                                                               iltizam.
CRISIS AND ITS HISTORY                                             According to Nushatü’s - selatin, scholars’ popularity
                                                               was lowered, bribe became popular and unskillful
Ottoman Empire                                                 administrators came into power in government. As such,
                                                               this caused a reduction of the revenue in the treasury
Economic prosperity as well as economic crisis had been        (Oz, 1997).
experienced in every stage of history. We will briefly             According   to    Hasan    Kafi,     the  deteoriating
discuss crisis in history and focus on the causes and          social-economic situation in the territory was caused by:
effects of recent crisis. Although Ottoman Empire (a           high level of bribery, unskillful labor force, decreased
welfare state) reached the summit of the welfare, it also      scholar’s popularity and underdevelopment of the military
faced many economic crises. The period in the beginning        industry (Oz, 1997).
of the second half of the 16th Century and which extends           The reason for the widespread of Iltizam (Tabakoglu,
till the 1970’s was termed as crisis, transformation,          1997) is that government chose taxation and Iltizam to
changes and dissolution of Ottoman Empire by                   increase revenue in order to cover for government’s high
historians. In this period, different solutions were           level of expenditure. Spending on soldiers and
proposed for the problems and causes that led to this          bureaucrat was a great part of the total government
crisis.                                                        expenditures, so Mukataa was given as Iltizam instead of
    When we look at the political and economical condition     their wages as seen in the following (Genc, 1997) (Table
of Ottoman Empire at the end of the last quarter of the        1):
16th century, the following were observed:
                                                               “I agree to what was said about causes and effects of
1. According to historians like B. Levis and H. Inalcik, the   crisis in the foregoing. Nevertheless, it is said that
spread of Ottoman Empire reached its natural limits.           Ottoman’s income was Mukataa, Cizye and Avariz (tax),
2. Ottoman Empire controlled a vital territory endowed         while expense was Mevacip (military), Teslimat (sultan
with silk and spice routes. At the beginning of the 17th       and palace) and has (vizier, admiral). In this situation,
century, British and Dutch established dominance on the        expense was increasing while income was decreasing
Mediterranian and Red Sea, and discoveries of                  due to the defeat observed in the 1774 Kucuk Kaynarca
alternative trade routes weakened the importance of the        war with Russia and that in the 1854 Kırım war. Finally,
Mediterranian trade that caused Ottomans’ losses.              Ottoman Empire went into debt burden which is another
3. Invasion of American silver in the cities that were         reason for crisis.”
controlled by Ottoman in the 1570’s gave rise to the
increase of commodity prices in Mediterranean countries.
4. Innovations of the modern era war weapons and               Recent global crisis
strategies.
5. Agricultural production fell behind the growing             It is expected that the policy makers must have learnt the
population in the second half of the 16th century.             lessons of history. Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the
Correspondingly, there was increase in unemployment            Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is a
due to rural-urban migration. Additionally, there were         student of the Great Depression. He understands that
changes in the upbringing style of the Sultans, and from       politic mistakes were responsible for the economic crisis
Timar system to Iltizam system. More so, military              of the 1930s. The economic downturn was underway in
members who could not get enough charges resort to             the second half of 1929, but not until 1933, significant
banditry, which adversely affected the lives of the            steps were taken to halt the fall in prices, stabilize the
community in Ottoman lands.                                    banking system and encourage investment spending.
  Internally, increased population pressure, changes in           The views of the current generation of policy makers
bureaucratic structure and excessive taxation of the           are very much informed by this historical episode, when
peasants deeply affected social order, while externally,       the Fed for several years made relatively little use of
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           Table 1. Budget of Ottoman Empire (Genc, 1997).

                      Year                 Revenue (akce)         Expenses (akce)                 Gap
                   1690-1991                 581.270.818            593.604.361               -12.333.543
                   1698- 1999               1.148.250.641          1.211.379.266              -63.560.888




monetary policy, allowing deflationary expectations to set      the outcome of long periods of excessively loose
in, and failed to execute its responsibilities as a lender of   monetary policy, especially in the advanced economies
last resort, allowing the banking system to collapse.           during the last decade. Global imbalances have been
   The crisis erupted in August 2007 when the Fed began         manifested through a substantial increase in consumption
flooding financial markets with liquidity. As such, the         in the US, which is the cause of the current deficit. On the
expansion of its balance sheet was unprecedented. The           other hand, a substantial surplus in Asia, particularly in
U.S. economy in the early 1930s was more heavily bank           China and in oil exporting countries in the Middle East
based than today; however, the current crisis has been a        and Russia caused global imbalance which was the
crisis not just for banks but for insurance companies, for      major underlying cause of the crisis (Mohan, 2010). The
hedge funds and for the security markets themselves             causes of recent crises can be seen as follows:
(Eichgreen, 2010). The Great Depression of 1929 is
related to the current Financial Crisis in that they both       1. The bursting of the housing bubble causing a
originated in the U.S and they damaged the world                reallocation of capital and a loss of household wealth and
economy at a frightful scale. For example, the financial        drop in consumption.
crisis has taken a heavy toll on the US in just a few           2. A sharp rise in the equity risk premium (the risk
months by $5 trillion (Financial Forum, 2009a). According       premium of equities over bonds) causing the cost of
to The Institute of International Finance's (IIF) "Capital      capital to rise, private investment to fall and demand for
Flows to Emerging Market Economies (EME)", a report             durable goods to collapse.
was issued in January 2009, and a forecast was made             3. A reappraisal of risk by households, thereby causing
that net private capital flows to 28 EMEs would drop            them to discount their future labor income, increase their
sharply to $165 billion in 2009 from $466 billion in 2008       savings and decrease consumption (Mckibbin and
following the record level of $929 billion in 2007 (Erdilek,    Stoeckel, 2009).
2009). It was also observed that Spain, a country in
Europe, hit the record numbers of unemployed. Spain             Firstly, if the circumstance is proper, the household can
government says the jobless rate stands at 11.3%,               choose investment in a capital good. The household
although the EU's statistical agency put it at 11.9%. In        capital stock combines housing and other durable goods.
every respect, Spain has the highest unemployment rate          When we look to the past, we see that the Federal
in the 27-member EU countries (Financial forum Spain,           Reserve cut interest rates by a total of 550 basis points in
2009b).                                                         a series of steps between 2001 and 2004. The housing
   In the study’s opinion, one of the many reasons of           bubble was the result of a long period of low interest rates
financial crisis is war. The Great Depression of 1929           by the US Federal Reserve. From 2000 to 2006, house
emerged from the ashes of the First World War whose             prices in some areas doubled for it to subsequently
cost was evaluated at $337000.000.000 by British                collapse. While house prices were rising so strongly,
economist and statistician Edgar Grammond. What about           credit was supplied liberally to meet the demand as
today? It is the same mistake of history; the same              perceptions of risk fell. The rising wealth boosted
manifestation was repeated at the dawn of the 21st              confidence and spending. These changes in some areas
century with America’s war in Iraq. In 2008, Linda J.           have generated dramatic news headlines, but in overall,
Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz of the Washington                 the United States index of house prices have fallen by
Post estimated the total cost of this war at $3 trillion “and   6.2% in real terms from the 1st quarter in 2008 to the
more”. In their words: “The Iraq adventure has seriously        same quarter in 2009. Falling house prices have a major
weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far                effect on household wealth, spending and defaults on
beyond loose mortgage lending” (Fowale, 2009).                  loans held by financial institutions. Finally, we saw that
                                                                housing bubble bursting fuelled financial crisis. Here, one
                                                                can ask: why did the USA cut interest rates? The answer
Causes of recent global crises                                  is that low interest rates were due to fears of deflation
                                                                which led to a boom in US housing. Also, the US bond
The current financial turmoil is attributed to the sub-prime    yields were low because of low world interest rates (for
mortgage sector in the USA. The crisis could be ascribed        example, Japanese bond yields were a little above 1%
to the persistence of large global imbalances, which were       and the short term interest rates were at 0%). There was
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also an international aspect, where Japan and Europe             industry began its radical decline, the exposure became
also affected the US to keep their interest rates low            potentially lethal. According to Samuelson, Lehman
(Mckibbin and Stoeckel, 2009). Secondly, due to the              Brothers was a typical example. In late 2007, it held
bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers in September 2008,             almost $700 billion in stocks, bonds and other
the current economic and financial environment of the            securities. Meanwhile, its shareholders’ investment
world economy, the global financial system and the               (equity) was about $23 billion. All the rest was supported
central banks have been faced with difficult times               by borrowings (Eckman, 2008).
(Mohan, 2010).                                                      The recent report on profit loss by firms (Citicorp,
   Lehman has held large positions in the subprime and           Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America) is scaring a lot to
other lower rated mortgage markets. The Lehman                   spread fear around the globe. Citicorp and Merrill Lynch
Brothers’ failure was primarily due to the large losses          each reported $10 billion loss in their profit, thereby
they sustained in the US subprime mortgage market.               causing massive layoff of 21,000 employees. On the
Losses of $2.8 billion have been reported by Lehman in           other hand, the Bank of America also joined to layoff
the second fiscal quarter in 2008; as such, it was forced        1,100 employees, which was followed by 500 Fortune
to sell off $6 billion of its assets. The failure of Lehman      corporations (Lee, 2008). This impact was seen in Brazil
Brothers affected equity risk premiums across markets            when 654,000 jobs were lost in December as the global
(Mckibbin and Stoeckel, 2009). Thirdly, firms’ reappraisal       crisis hits Latin America’s largest economy. The worst
of risk has discounted households’ labor income which            affected sectors of this country were the industry,
fuelled the increase in savings and decrease in                  agriculture and construction (Financial forum, 2009c). As
consumption. This situation is also another cause of             a result, America's domestic and foreign debt continued
financial crisis.                                                increasing. It was seen that both the US current account
                                                                 deficit and its debt-financed housing boom were
                                                                 unsustainable; it was unclear whether the dollar or the
EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE WORLD                         housing bubble would collapse first (Skidelsky, 2009).
ECONOMY                                                          Beginning with the failures of large financial institutions,
According to Paul A. Samuelson, recession has some               the US rapidly evolved into a global financial crisis,
characteristics. Firstly, consumers decrease their               deflation and sharp reductions in shipping, thereby
consumption. Due to these, producers (investors as well          resulting in a number of European bank failures and
as foreign investors) react by curbing production; so, real      declines in various stock indexes, and large reductions in
GDP falls. Secondly, if producers curb production, it            the market value of equities (stock) and commodities
causes no need for more labor force, which is finally            worldwide (Jica, 2009).
followed by layoff and higher unemployment. Thirdly,                Fundamentally, the outcome of the current financial
when demand for raw materials is low, this decreases             crisis is clearly evident among countries. Stock markets
their price. Finally, we see that business profits fall          stopped working properly all over the world, with a
sharply in crisis (Paul and William, 2001). Theoretically,       declining range from 40to 35% over the past 12 to 18
financial crisis affects the economy. However, an analysis       months in developed countries and even more in most
will be made on the impact of the recent global and              emerging markets. The crisis has also induced significant
financial crisis among countries.                                limitations to investment banking in the United States
                                                                 during the past decade, and a severe recession in most
                                                                 advanced countries and much slower growth in emerging
Effects of crisis on developed countries (USA)                   markets. This is likely to be the worst economic recession
                                                                 since the 1930s (Salvatore, 2009). It is clear that global
As everyone knows, the United States has been facing its         financial crisis affected the developed countries, such
greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the      that GDP growth rate was 5.2 (2007), 3.2 (2008) and -1.3
1930s; although there are speculations on how American           (2009) for US and 2.7 (2007), 0.9 (2008) and -3.8 (2009)
capitalism will be fundamentally changed by the crisis.          for European countries (Akrasanee, 2009). According to
First of all, we see that the United States is in the midst of   the least developed countries’ report in 2009, it was
its most serious banking crisis in seventy years, stirring       argued that the impact of the global economic crisis is
terrible memories of panics, bank failures, bankruptcies         likely to be so severe in the least developed countries
and mass unemployment. The two largest US mortgage               (LDCs) that “business as usual” is no longer possible
providers - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - were holding            (UN, 2009).
over $5 trillion in mortgage debt (Dornbusch and Fisher,
1994); then, the Lehman Brothers’ problem…… The facts
are that financial firms (for example, Lehman Brothers,          Effects of crisis on the developing and least
Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, etc.) were           developed countries
significantly exposed when they came to the cycles of the
economy. As long as the economy was expanding, their             Global financial crisis is hitting developing countries very
exposure was protected. However, when the housing                hard. The financial crisis is not a natural disaster; it was
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      Table 2. Financial inflows and export earnings from 2007 to 2009 (current US$, millions).

                                 Total inflow          Total inflow              %∆                Predicted        %∆
        Country
                                    2007                  2008                2007-2008           Inflow 2009    2007-2009
        Sub Saharan Africa         368,373               371,536                  1                 319,007         -13
        South Africa               118,022               95,203                  -19                 62,307         -47
        Korea                      391,344               391,437                  0                 243,458         -38
        Turkey                     167,316               147,739                 -12                109,871         -34
        Brazil                     255,005               219,845                 -14                176,816         -31
        Russia                     481,195               500,475                  4                 338,667         -30
        India                      247,932               222,852                 -10                175,344         -29
        Nigeria                    95,900                115,777                 21                  71,133         -26
        Venezuela                  68,934                94,021                  36                  52,862         -23
        Malaysia                   193,857               199,362                  3                 161,791         -17
        China                     1,372,763             1,446,750                 5                1,075,844        -22
      Source: Action Aid (2009). Where does it hurt? The impact of financial crisis on developing countries.



made by people, and is the product of decisions made by                  flows to developing countries were actually negative. The
companies and the governments. Although developing                       turmoil in financial markets has also had an impact on
countries did not make this crisis, it is clear that they are            developing countries’ equity markets and FDI (Table 3).
in the firing line when it comes to suffering its effects. For           On the other hand, we highlight that the losses were
example, Action Aid has calculated that Africa will suffer               mainly from trade revenue, and would depend on each
a real drop in income which is predicted to reach US$49                  country’s mix of exports and main trading partners.
billion between the start of the crisis in 2007 and the end              However, for some low income countries, the predicted
of it in 2009. If we compare the two recent crises, we can               trade losses varied from a fall of about 25% to a lesser
see that the relative impact to GDP is nearly double that                percent in export earnings between 2007 and 2009
of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s (Action Aid,             (Action Aid, 2009).
2009).                                                                      One more tragic story from the World Bank Report
   Generally, the level of potential output in developing                shows a 50-year-old grandmother recalling the difficulties
countries could be reduced between 3.4 and 8% over the                   of reduced wages before she found her new job:
long run, when compared with its pre-crisis path (World
Bank, 2010). There are several transmission channels by                  “It was really hard to live on 200 baht (approximately 6
which financial crisis is spreading around the world.                    USD) a day when I had to buy food and milk for a child,
Moreover, with recession looming in the industrialized                   and still had to pay rent as well as other expenses, but I
world, which accounts for more than 60% of the world                     never had any money left back then. Now I can relax a
output, exports from developing and emerging countries                   little bit and save a little every month.”
will take a hit. A slowdown of world growth will also affect
energy and commodity prices, which in turn will affect                   We can face such kind of tens of millions of stories such
energy and commodity exporting countries, while                          as Nit’s - and some far worse - each echoing the pain of
importers will get some relief.                                          a historically deep and synchronized recession, in which
   Last, but not the least, the crisis has already affected              virtually no country has remained untouched by the
remittance flows from industrialized to developing                       bursting of a global financial bubble, while the poorest
countries, which is an important source of income for                    remain the most vulnerable.
many countries (GDI, 2010). When we look carefully, we                     According to a new World Bank report, “Global
can see the countries that are most affected among the                   Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance and Growth”,
16 low and middle-income countries. Every single country                 the crisis is having serious cumulative impacts on
in our sample, and the sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, is                 poverty. Researchers Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady
predicted to see a real drop in inflows between 2007 and                 estimated, for instance, that an additional number of
2009 (Action Aid, 2009) (Table 2).                                       children between 30,000 and 50,000 may have died of
   Financial crisis affected factors such as bank lending,               malnutrition in Africa in 2009 because of the crisis (World
equities and foreign direct investment. Of all the money                 Bank, 2010).
that flows into developing countries, it is bank lending that              What about inflation in developing countries? In 2008, a
has been hit the hardest. According to the Institute of                  sharp rise was seen in food and fuel prices, but in 2009,
International Finance (IIF), foreign bank lending to                     commodity price has resulted in the inflation rate falling
developing countries dropped sharply. In other words, net                dramatically. For instance, inflation in low-income countries
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                Table 3. Financial market.

                  Type of financial flow     Predicted change for developing countries from 2007-2009 (%)
                  Bank lending                                           -115
                  Equities                                                -82
                  FDI                                                     -34
                Source: Action Aid (2009). Where does it hurt? The impact of the financial crisis on developing
                countries.


              Table 4. A modest recovery.

                                                                                         e          f            f
               Region                                     2007        2008        2009        2010         2011
               World                                      3.9         1.7         -2.2        2.7          3.2
               High-Income Countries                      2.6         0.4         -3.3        1.8          2.3
               Euro Area                                  2.7         0.5         -3.9        1.0          1.7
               Japan                                      2.3         -1.2        -5.4        1.3          1.8
               United States                              2.1         0.4         -2.5        2.5          2.7
               Developing Countries                       8.1         5.6         1.2         5.2          5.8
               East Asia and Pacific                      11.4        8.0         6.8         8.1          8.2
               Europe and Central Asia                    7.1         4.2         -6.2        2.7          3.6
               Latin America and the Caribbean            5.5         3.9         -2.6        3.1          3.6
               Middle East and North Africa               5.9         4.3         2.9         3.7          4.4
               South Asia                                 8.5         5.7         5.7         6.9          7.4
               Sub-Saharan Africa                         6.5         5.1         1.1         3.8          4.6
               Memorandum Items
               Developing Countries
               Excluding transition countries             8.1         5.6         2.5         5.7          6.1
               Excluding China and India                  6.2         4.3         -2.2        3.3          4.0
              Source: World Bank (2010). Note: e = estimate; f = forecast. Growth rates were aggregated using real GDP
              in 2005 constant dollars (Real GDP growth, percentage change from previous year).



countries peaked at 15.4% in the middle of 2008, but in             private-sector’s demand and fiscal and monetary
July 2009, it declined to 3.4% (World Bank, 2010).                  stimulus. An estimated 64 million more people may be
   When the business cycle was visualized, it was                   living in extreme poverty by the end of 2010 due to the
observed that the world economy has been at the bottom              crisis. Thus, developing countries need to anticipate
of fluctuation; then, after 2009, the data showed that              scarcer and more expensive capital (World Bank, 2010).
global GDP has began to improve. Thus, the output grew
rapidly during the second half of 2009 and is expected to
do same during the first half of 2010. However, as a                DISCUSSION AND SUGGESTIONS
positive contribution to growth is seen from the fiscal
stimulus, the growth will slow in part because spending             It was observed that economic crisis has been in the
by households and the banking sector will be less                   making for years and is largely due to lack of regulation
buoyant as they rebuild their balance sheets. As a result,          and enforcement within the financial system. Moreover, a
global GDP growth, which is projected to be 2.7% in 2010            lack of confidence on how the international financial
(after an unprecedented 2.2% decline in 2009), is                   institutions are governed has also become severe. Each
expected to accelerate only modestly to 3.2% in 2011                country, of course, is different in many ways, but each
(World Bank, 2010).                                                 faces global financial crisis and each one wants to avoid
   According to the World Bank data, recovery is seen as            financial instability’s destruction. Central Bank is
the GDP growth rate in developing countries is projected            responsible for financial stability in any country which can
to grow by 5.2% in 2010, after a modest 1.2% rise in                pursue a cautious monetary and fiscal policy and can
2009 (-2.2% if India and China are excluded) and a                  prevent financial risks within the country as a result of
relatively weak 5.8% rise in 2011 (Table 4). GDP growth             regulatory and supervising implementation. World
is improving, but it will take a long time to fully improve.        economy is more dependent and more interrelated due to
The strength of the recovery depends on the                         the phenomenon of globalization. In response to the
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global financial crisis, central banks and governments         should be given as Emanet instead of Iltizam. About the
have taken different measures to rectify the problems and      low purchasing power, we cannot say that the sole
put financial markets and the economies back into the          reason for inflation is the American silver, because there
right path. Corrective measures have to be taken               was a change in the fiscal and demography policies
collectively to reduce the severe effects of global crisis.    which lasted for a long term. So, agricultural product was
   International institutions and treaties like IMF, WTO and   behind the increase observed in the population, and the
WB should play active role in balancing global trade and       high level of government expenses could be one of the
markets. Other internationally accepted institutions can       main reasons too.
be established and empowered to regulate and monitor             Basically, it was also seen that there are many causes
activities of international companies. Ethical practices       of the recent global financial crisis. In this paper, we
should be rewarded. Governments should focus on their          faced the main reasons, such as: the bursting of the
fiscal spending and stimulus packages on infrastructure        housing bubble, a sharp rise in the equity risk premium
and construction activities which will lead to economic        and a reappraisal of risk by households. In the study’s
growth rather than bail-outs and subsidy programs.             opinion, another reason for crisis is the imbalance of
   New global financial systems should be established          consumption and production in the world. In the West,
together with new internationally accepted organizations.      consumption was vast, while in the East, production was
These new institutions should have resources and play a        vast. These caused the persistence of large global
major role to balance world economies. Creation of new         imbalances called the greatest financial crisis in USA and
financial instruments should be evaluated and monitored        spread to the other countries. If we say that no country
thoroughly. These new institutions should ensure that a        was affected by crisis, we are not making a mistake.
new strong global financial system will not permit for         Developed countries, especially USA and European
future collapses.                                              countries, were affected more than developing countries.
                                                               Most of the countries’ GDP dropped sharply, while some
1. Nations should implement economic regulatory and            huge corporations went to bankruptcy and the
legal policy reforms instead of protectionist and              unemployment rate increased. It is assumed that the
nationalist policies.                                          economy saw the lowest level. Global macroeconomics
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  • 1. African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(26), pp. 10286-10293, 28 October, 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM10.1697 ISSN 1993-8233©2011 Academic Journals Review Causes and effects of economic crisis in history Ahmet DINC* and Fatih CURA Faculty of Economics, Administration Science, Ishik University, Erbil, Iraq. Accepted 31 January, 2011 The economic crisis which started in the U.S. (one of the biggest economies of the world) has spread all over the world. Wavelength made it global by affecting financial market. We analyzed crisis under three main titles in this study: Firstly, we studied economic crisis in history; secondly, we analyzed causes of recent global crisis; and thirdly, we analyzed the effects of financial crisis on developed and developing countries. There are some similarities in the causes and effects of economic crisis on Ottoman Empire in the 1929s, and in the recent one. This study’s aim is to highlight the importance of economic crisis through an historical process. Economic crisis signified its destructiveness in the last four years like in history. The cause of the last crises was identical, but its effects were at different severities as compared to the different economic levels of several countries. It was seen that the recent crisis’ effect was more severe in developed countries than in developing ones, such that the world’s production decreased, unemployment rate increased, and lots of corporations went into bankruptcy. Key words: Global crisis, cause, effect, history, world economy. INTRODUCTION When we look, in retrospect, at economic theory, it is If a boom or crisis is as a result of spending or price accepted that the economy never grows smoothly. Any shock, GNP will be away from its potential. In this country’s economy may enjoy several years of situation, the government should interfere with the exhilarating economic expansion and prosperity; although economy to speed the return to its potential. So, the this situation cannot go on forever. This accomplishment government uses monetary policy (money stock) and might be followed by a recession, depression or financial fiscal policy (taxes and spending) to solve the economic crisis. When the economy faces recession, depression or problem as demand shocks (Hall and Taylor, 1991). a financial crisis, the national output falls, profits and Causes and effects of crisis, which have occurred in incomes decline, unstable price of goods and services various times in history, can be similar or identical. For occur and unemployment rates jump to uncomfortably example, the crisis that took place in Ottoman Empire high levels, after which the economy reaches its lowest had internal and external causes, such as: the ebb and the recovery begins. This situation can be purchasing power and national income which decreased termed as “Business Cycles”, where the economic due to the invasion of the American silver and the British fluctuations seen in the total national output, income and and Dutch alternative trade route to Ottoman Empire. employment generally last for a period of 2 to 10 years, These causes are similar with those of the recent one, marked by widespread expansion in most sectors. such as: the failure to pay on time loans collected from However, the upward and downward movements in banks due to mortgage internally, and the imbalance of national output, inflation level, interest rate and consumption and production of the world externally. unemployment rate form the business cycle which Secondly, according to Genc who is a Turkish historian, characterizes the whole market economy (Paul and the main reason for crisis is war because crisis and war William, 2001). In order to give right political advice, occurred at the same time since the 17th century. The economists should know the causes of boom and crisis. USA’s total cost of war in Iraq is predicted to be very much, or maybe more. This can be another reason why the American economy is weak. Crisis in history and crisis in immediate history has a common similarity. *Corresponding author. E-mail: ahmet24dinc@hotmail.com, However, the unskillful labor force is another reason for da29tr@yahoo.com. Tel: +9647507065012. crisis in Ottoman Empire. In the study’s opinion, this
  • 2. Dinc and Cura 10287 reason is also valid for the recent financial crisis. price increase of the American silver deeply affected Someone who is responsible for the economy of any social order (Oz, 1997). country should have foresight and take precautions. We However, precautionary measures, taken to unravel the have to comprehend well the importance of crisis, dissolution, can give us information about the effect of because Ottoman Empire and USSR have fallen down reforms. due to crisis. Soviet Union had negative GNP as -15% We observed that solutions were proposed in the (Turan, 2007) in 1990 and -8% (Sancak, 2009) in 1993; Asaf-name book by Lutfi Pasha for the increased rate of as such, it could not catch the speed of technological bribe and the decreased rate of purchasing power due to development and its old system could not be integrated. the deteriorating economy. To solve this problem, Nonetheless, crisis in the stage of history is going to be educated, sophisticated and a skillful labor force should analyzed subsequently. be appointed, and the official who heads a provincial treasury and Mukataa should be given emanet instead of iltizam. CRISIS AND ITS HISTORY According to Nushatü’s - selatin, scholars’ popularity was lowered, bribe became popular and unskillful Ottoman Empire administrators came into power in government. As such, this caused a reduction of the revenue in the treasury Economic prosperity as well as economic crisis had been (Oz, 1997). experienced in every stage of history. We will briefly According to Hasan Kafi, the deteoriating discuss crisis in history and focus on the causes and social-economic situation in the territory was caused by: effects of recent crisis. Although Ottoman Empire (a high level of bribery, unskillful labor force, decreased welfare state) reached the summit of the welfare, it also scholar’s popularity and underdevelopment of the military faced many economic crises. The period in the beginning industry (Oz, 1997). of the second half of the 16th Century and which extends The reason for the widespread of Iltizam (Tabakoglu, till the 1970’s was termed as crisis, transformation, 1997) is that government chose taxation and Iltizam to changes and dissolution of Ottoman Empire by increase revenue in order to cover for government’s high historians. In this period, different solutions were level of expenditure. Spending on soldiers and proposed for the problems and causes that led to this bureaucrat was a great part of the total government crisis. expenditures, so Mukataa was given as Iltizam instead of When we look at the political and economical condition their wages as seen in the following (Genc, 1997) (Table of Ottoman Empire at the end of the last quarter of the 1): 16th century, the following were observed: “I agree to what was said about causes and effects of 1. According to historians like B. Levis and H. Inalcik, the crisis in the foregoing. Nevertheless, it is said that spread of Ottoman Empire reached its natural limits. Ottoman’s income was Mukataa, Cizye and Avariz (tax), 2. Ottoman Empire controlled a vital territory endowed while expense was Mevacip (military), Teslimat (sultan with silk and spice routes. At the beginning of the 17th and palace) and has (vizier, admiral). In this situation, century, British and Dutch established dominance on the expense was increasing while income was decreasing Mediterranian and Red Sea, and discoveries of due to the defeat observed in the 1774 Kucuk Kaynarca alternative trade routes weakened the importance of the war with Russia and that in the 1854 Kırım war. Finally, Mediterranian trade that caused Ottomans’ losses. Ottoman Empire went into debt burden which is another 3. Invasion of American silver in the cities that were reason for crisis.” controlled by Ottoman in the 1570’s gave rise to the increase of commodity prices in Mediterranean countries. 4. Innovations of the modern era war weapons and Recent global crisis strategies. 5. Agricultural production fell behind the growing It is expected that the policy makers must have learnt the population in the second half of the 16th century. lessons of history. Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Correspondingly, there was increase in unemployment Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is a due to rural-urban migration. Additionally, there were student of the Great Depression. He understands that changes in the upbringing style of the Sultans, and from politic mistakes were responsible for the economic crisis Timar system to Iltizam system. More so, military of the 1930s. The economic downturn was underway in members who could not get enough charges resort to the second half of 1929, but not until 1933, significant banditry, which adversely affected the lives of the steps were taken to halt the fall in prices, stabilize the community in Ottoman lands. banking system and encourage investment spending. Internally, increased population pressure, changes in The views of the current generation of policy makers bureaucratic structure and excessive taxation of the are very much informed by this historical episode, when peasants deeply affected social order, while externally, the Fed for several years made relatively little use of
  • 3. 10288 Afr. J. Bus. Manage. Table 1. Budget of Ottoman Empire (Genc, 1997). Year Revenue (akce) Expenses (akce) Gap 1690-1991 581.270.818 593.604.361 -12.333.543 1698- 1999 1.148.250.641 1.211.379.266 -63.560.888 monetary policy, allowing deflationary expectations to set the outcome of long periods of excessively loose in, and failed to execute its responsibilities as a lender of monetary policy, especially in the advanced economies last resort, allowing the banking system to collapse. during the last decade. Global imbalances have been The crisis erupted in August 2007 when the Fed began manifested through a substantial increase in consumption flooding financial markets with liquidity. As such, the in the US, which is the cause of the current deficit. On the expansion of its balance sheet was unprecedented. The other hand, a substantial surplus in Asia, particularly in U.S. economy in the early 1930s was more heavily bank China and in oil exporting countries in the Middle East based than today; however, the current crisis has been a and Russia caused global imbalance which was the crisis not just for banks but for insurance companies, for major underlying cause of the crisis (Mohan, 2010). The hedge funds and for the security markets themselves causes of recent crises can be seen as follows: (Eichgreen, 2010). The Great Depression of 1929 is related to the current Financial Crisis in that they both 1. The bursting of the housing bubble causing a originated in the U.S and they damaged the world reallocation of capital and a loss of household wealth and economy at a frightful scale. For example, the financial drop in consumption. crisis has taken a heavy toll on the US in just a few 2. A sharp rise in the equity risk premium (the risk months by $5 trillion (Financial Forum, 2009a). According premium of equities over bonds) causing the cost of to The Institute of International Finance's (IIF) "Capital capital to rise, private investment to fall and demand for Flows to Emerging Market Economies (EME)", a report durable goods to collapse. was issued in January 2009, and a forecast was made 3. A reappraisal of risk by households, thereby causing that net private capital flows to 28 EMEs would drop them to discount their future labor income, increase their sharply to $165 billion in 2009 from $466 billion in 2008 savings and decrease consumption (Mckibbin and following the record level of $929 billion in 2007 (Erdilek, Stoeckel, 2009). 2009). It was also observed that Spain, a country in Europe, hit the record numbers of unemployed. Spain Firstly, if the circumstance is proper, the household can government says the jobless rate stands at 11.3%, choose investment in a capital good. The household although the EU's statistical agency put it at 11.9%. In capital stock combines housing and other durable goods. every respect, Spain has the highest unemployment rate When we look to the past, we see that the Federal in the 27-member EU countries (Financial forum Spain, Reserve cut interest rates by a total of 550 basis points in 2009b). a series of steps between 2001 and 2004. The housing In the study’s opinion, one of the many reasons of bubble was the result of a long period of low interest rates financial crisis is war. The Great Depression of 1929 by the US Federal Reserve. From 2000 to 2006, house emerged from the ashes of the First World War whose prices in some areas doubled for it to subsequently cost was evaluated at $337000.000.000 by British collapse. While house prices were rising so strongly, economist and statistician Edgar Grammond. What about credit was supplied liberally to meet the demand as today? It is the same mistake of history; the same perceptions of risk fell. The rising wealth boosted manifestation was repeated at the dawn of the 21st confidence and spending. These changes in some areas century with America’s war in Iraq. In 2008, Linda J. have generated dramatic news headlines, but in overall, Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz of the Washington the United States index of house prices have fallen by Post estimated the total cost of this war at $3 trillion “and 6.2% in real terms from the 1st quarter in 2008 to the more”. In their words: “The Iraq adventure has seriously same quarter in 2009. Falling house prices have a major weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far effect on household wealth, spending and defaults on beyond loose mortgage lending” (Fowale, 2009). loans held by financial institutions. Finally, we saw that housing bubble bursting fuelled financial crisis. Here, one can ask: why did the USA cut interest rates? The answer Causes of recent global crises is that low interest rates were due to fears of deflation which led to a boom in US housing. Also, the US bond The current financial turmoil is attributed to the sub-prime yields were low because of low world interest rates (for mortgage sector in the USA. The crisis could be ascribed example, Japanese bond yields were a little above 1% to the persistence of large global imbalances, which were and the short term interest rates were at 0%). There was
  • 4. Dinc and Cura 10289 also an international aspect, where Japan and Europe industry began its radical decline, the exposure became also affected the US to keep their interest rates low potentially lethal. According to Samuelson, Lehman (Mckibbin and Stoeckel, 2009). Secondly, due to the Brothers was a typical example. In late 2007, it held bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers in September 2008, almost $700 billion in stocks, bonds and other the current economic and financial environment of the securities. Meanwhile, its shareholders’ investment world economy, the global financial system and the (equity) was about $23 billion. All the rest was supported central banks have been faced with difficult times by borrowings (Eckman, 2008). (Mohan, 2010). The recent report on profit loss by firms (Citicorp, Lehman has held large positions in the subprime and Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America) is scaring a lot to other lower rated mortgage markets. The Lehman spread fear around the globe. Citicorp and Merrill Lynch Brothers’ failure was primarily due to the large losses each reported $10 billion loss in their profit, thereby they sustained in the US subprime mortgage market. causing massive layoff of 21,000 employees. On the Losses of $2.8 billion have been reported by Lehman in other hand, the Bank of America also joined to layoff the second fiscal quarter in 2008; as such, it was forced 1,100 employees, which was followed by 500 Fortune to sell off $6 billion of its assets. The failure of Lehman corporations (Lee, 2008). This impact was seen in Brazil Brothers affected equity risk premiums across markets when 654,000 jobs were lost in December as the global (Mckibbin and Stoeckel, 2009). Thirdly, firms’ reappraisal crisis hits Latin America’s largest economy. The worst of risk has discounted households’ labor income which affected sectors of this country were the industry, fuelled the increase in savings and decrease in agriculture and construction (Financial forum, 2009c). As consumption. This situation is also another cause of a result, America's domestic and foreign debt continued financial crisis. increasing. It was seen that both the US current account deficit and its debt-financed housing boom were unsustainable; it was unclear whether the dollar or the EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE WORLD housing bubble would collapse first (Skidelsky, 2009). ECONOMY Beginning with the failures of large financial institutions, According to Paul A. Samuelson, recession has some the US rapidly evolved into a global financial crisis, characteristics. Firstly, consumers decrease their deflation and sharp reductions in shipping, thereby consumption. Due to these, producers (investors as well resulting in a number of European bank failures and as foreign investors) react by curbing production; so, real declines in various stock indexes, and large reductions in GDP falls. Secondly, if producers curb production, it the market value of equities (stock) and commodities causes no need for more labor force, which is finally worldwide (Jica, 2009). followed by layoff and higher unemployment. Thirdly, Fundamentally, the outcome of the current financial when demand for raw materials is low, this decreases crisis is clearly evident among countries. Stock markets their price. Finally, we see that business profits fall stopped working properly all over the world, with a sharply in crisis (Paul and William, 2001). Theoretically, declining range from 40to 35% over the past 12 to 18 financial crisis affects the economy. However, an analysis months in developed countries and even more in most will be made on the impact of the recent global and emerging markets. The crisis has also induced significant financial crisis among countries. limitations to investment banking in the United States during the past decade, and a severe recession in most advanced countries and much slower growth in emerging Effects of crisis on developed countries (USA) markets. This is likely to be the worst economic recession since the 1930s (Salvatore, 2009). It is clear that global As everyone knows, the United States has been facing its financial crisis affected the developed countries, such greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the that GDP growth rate was 5.2 (2007), 3.2 (2008) and -1.3 1930s; although there are speculations on how American (2009) for US and 2.7 (2007), 0.9 (2008) and -3.8 (2009) capitalism will be fundamentally changed by the crisis. for European countries (Akrasanee, 2009). According to First of all, we see that the United States is in the midst of the least developed countries’ report in 2009, it was its most serious banking crisis in seventy years, stirring argued that the impact of the global economic crisis is terrible memories of panics, bank failures, bankruptcies likely to be so severe in the least developed countries and mass unemployment. The two largest US mortgage (LDCs) that “business as usual” is no longer possible providers - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - were holding (UN, 2009). over $5 trillion in mortgage debt (Dornbusch and Fisher, 1994); then, the Lehman Brothers’ problem…… The facts are that financial firms (for example, Lehman Brothers, Effects of crisis on the developing and least Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, etc.) were developed countries significantly exposed when they came to the cycles of the economy. As long as the economy was expanding, their Global financial crisis is hitting developing countries very exposure was protected. However, when the housing hard. The financial crisis is not a natural disaster; it was
  • 5. 10290 Afr. J. Bus. Manage. Table 2. Financial inflows and export earnings from 2007 to 2009 (current US$, millions). Total inflow Total inflow %∆ Predicted %∆ Country 2007 2008 2007-2008 Inflow 2009 2007-2009 Sub Saharan Africa 368,373 371,536 1 319,007 -13 South Africa 118,022 95,203 -19 62,307 -47 Korea 391,344 391,437 0 243,458 -38 Turkey 167,316 147,739 -12 109,871 -34 Brazil 255,005 219,845 -14 176,816 -31 Russia 481,195 500,475 4 338,667 -30 India 247,932 222,852 -10 175,344 -29 Nigeria 95,900 115,777 21 71,133 -26 Venezuela 68,934 94,021 36 52,862 -23 Malaysia 193,857 199,362 3 161,791 -17 China 1,372,763 1,446,750 5 1,075,844 -22 Source: Action Aid (2009). Where does it hurt? The impact of financial crisis on developing countries. made by people, and is the product of decisions made by flows to developing countries were actually negative. The companies and the governments. Although developing turmoil in financial markets has also had an impact on countries did not make this crisis, it is clear that they are developing countries’ equity markets and FDI (Table 3). in the firing line when it comes to suffering its effects. For On the other hand, we highlight that the losses were example, Action Aid has calculated that Africa will suffer mainly from trade revenue, and would depend on each a real drop in income which is predicted to reach US$49 country’s mix of exports and main trading partners. billion between the start of the crisis in 2007 and the end However, for some low income countries, the predicted of it in 2009. If we compare the two recent crises, we can trade losses varied from a fall of about 25% to a lesser see that the relative impact to GDP is nearly double that percent in export earnings between 2007 and 2009 of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s (Action Aid, (Action Aid, 2009). 2009). One more tragic story from the World Bank Report Generally, the level of potential output in developing shows a 50-year-old grandmother recalling the difficulties countries could be reduced between 3.4 and 8% over the of reduced wages before she found her new job: long run, when compared with its pre-crisis path (World Bank, 2010). There are several transmission channels by “It was really hard to live on 200 baht (approximately 6 which financial crisis is spreading around the world. USD) a day when I had to buy food and milk for a child, Moreover, with recession looming in the industrialized and still had to pay rent as well as other expenses, but I world, which accounts for more than 60% of the world never had any money left back then. Now I can relax a output, exports from developing and emerging countries little bit and save a little every month.” will take a hit. A slowdown of world growth will also affect energy and commodity prices, which in turn will affect We can face such kind of tens of millions of stories such energy and commodity exporting countries, while as Nit’s - and some far worse - each echoing the pain of importers will get some relief. a historically deep and synchronized recession, in which Last, but not the least, the crisis has already affected virtually no country has remained untouched by the remittance flows from industrialized to developing bursting of a global financial bubble, while the poorest countries, which is an important source of income for remain the most vulnerable. many countries (GDI, 2010). When we look carefully, we According to a new World Bank report, “Global can see the countries that are most affected among the Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance and Growth”, 16 low and middle-income countries. Every single country the crisis is having serious cumulative impacts on in our sample, and the sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, is poverty. Researchers Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady predicted to see a real drop in inflows between 2007 and estimated, for instance, that an additional number of 2009 (Action Aid, 2009) (Table 2). children between 30,000 and 50,000 may have died of Financial crisis affected factors such as bank lending, malnutrition in Africa in 2009 because of the crisis (World equities and foreign direct investment. Of all the money Bank, 2010). that flows into developing countries, it is bank lending that What about inflation in developing countries? In 2008, a has been hit the hardest. According to the Institute of sharp rise was seen in food and fuel prices, but in 2009, International Finance (IIF), foreign bank lending to commodity price has resulted in the inflation rate falling developing countries dropped sharply. In other words, net dramatically. For instance, inflation in low-income countries
  • 6. Dinc and Cura 10291 Table 3. Financial market. Type of financial flow Predicted change for developing countries from 2007-2009 (%) Bank lending -115 Equities -82 FDI -34 Source: Action Aid (2009). Where does it hurt? The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries. Table 4. A modest recovery. e f f Region 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 World 3.9 1.7 -2.2 2.7 3.2 High-Income Countries 2.6 0.4 -3.3 1.8 2.3 Euro Area 2.7 0.5 -3.9 1.0 1.7 Japan 2.3 -1.2 -5.4 1.3 1.8 United States 2.1 0.4 -2.5 2.5 2.7 Developing Countries 8.1 5.6 1.2 5.2 5.8 East Asia and Pacific 11.4 8.0 6.8 8.1 8.2 Europe and Central Asia 7.1 4.2 -6.2 2.7 3.6 Latin America and the Caribbean 5.5 3.9 -2.6 3.1 3.6 Middle East and North Africa 5.9 4.3 2.9 3.7 4.4 South Asia 8.5 5.7 5.7 6.9 7.4 Sub-Saharan Africa 6.5 5.1 1.1 3.8 4.6 Memorandum Items Developing Countries Excluding transition countries 8.1 5.6 2.5 5.7 6.1 Excluding China and India 6.2 4.3 -2.2 3.3 4.0 Source: World Bank (2010). Note: e = estimate; f = forecast. Growth rates were aggregated using real GDP in 2005 constant dollars (Real GDP growth, percentage change from previous year). countries peaked at 15.4% in the middle of 2008, but in private-sector’s demand and fiscal and monetary July 2009, it declined to 3.4% (World Bank, 2010). stimulus. An estimated 64 million more people may be When the business cycle was visualized, it was living in extreme poverty by the end of 2010 due to the observed that the world economy has been at the bottom crisis. Thus, developing countries need to anticipate of fluctuation; then, after 2009, the data showed that scarcer and more expensive capital (World Bank, 2010). global GDP has began to improve. Thus, the output grew rapidly during the second half of 2009 and is expected to do same during the first half of 2010. However, as a DISCUSSION AND SUGGESTIONS positive contribution to growth is seen from the fiscal stimulus, the growth will slow in part because spending It was observed that economic crisis has been in the by households and the banking sector will be less making for years and is largely due to lack of regulation buoyant as they rebuild their balance sheets. As a result, and enforcement within the financial system. Moreover, a global GDP growth, which is projected to be 2.7% in 2010 lack of confidence on how the international financial (after an unprecedented 2.2% decline in 2009), is institutions are governed has also become severe. Each expected to accelerate only modestly to 3.2% in 2011 country, of course, is different in many ways, but each (World Bank, 2010). faces global financial crisis and each one wants to avoid According to the World Bank data, recovery is seen as financial instability’s destruction. Central Bank is the GDP growth rate in developing countries is projected responsible for financial stability in any country which can to grow by 5.2% in 2010, after a modest 1.2% rise in pursue a cautious monetary and fiscal policy and can 2009 (-2.2% if India and China are excluded) and a prevent financial risks within the country as a result of relatively weak 5.8% rise in 2011 (Table 4). GDP growth regulatory and supervising implementation. World is improving, but it will take a long time to fully improve. economy is more dependent and more interrelated due to The strength of the recovery depends on the the phenomenon of globalization. In response to the
  • 7. 10292 Afr. J. Bus. Manage. global financial crisis, central banks and governments should be given as Emanet instead of Iltizam. About the have taken different measures to rectify the problems and low purchasing power, we cannot say that the sole put financial markets and the economies back into the reason for inflation is the American silver, because there right path. Corrective measures have to be taken was a change in the fiscal and demography policies collectively to reduce the severe effects of global crisis. which lasted for a long term. So, agricultural product was International institutions and treaties like IMF, WTO and behind the increase observed in the population, and the WB should play active role in balancing global trade and high level of government expenses could be one of the markets. Other internationally accepted institutions can main reasons too. be established and empowered to regulate and monitor Basically, it was also seen that there are many causes activities of international companies. Ethical practices of the recent global financial crisis. In this paper, we should be rewarded. Governments should focus on their faced the main reasons, such as: the bursting of the fiscal spending and stimulus packages on infrastructure housing bubble, a sharp rise in the equity risk premium and construction activities which will lead to economic and a reappraisal of risk by households. In the study’s growth rather than bail-outs and subsidy programs. opinion, another reason for crisis is the imbalance of New global financial systems should be established consumption and production in the world. In the West, together with new internationally accepted organizations. consumption was vast, while in the East, production was These new institutions should have resources and play a vast. These caused the persistence of large global major role to balance world economies. Creation of new imbalances called the greatest financial crisis in USA and financial instruments should be evaluated and monitored spread to the other countries. If we say that no country thoroughly. These new institutions should ensure that a was affected by crisis, we are not making a mistake. new strong global financial system will not permit for Developed countries, especially USA and European future collapses. countries, were affected more than developing countries. Most of the countries’ GDP dropped sharply, while some 1. Nations should implement economic regulatory and huge corporations went to bankruptcy and the legal policy reforms instead of protectionist and unemployment rate increased. 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