For example, Beneria discussed a situation in Peru in which soup kitchens were staffed with women as are the gender norms of that culture. ... In my own experience in the Philippines I found that the government was run by those who were also in control of the local economy and thus the government will make ridiculous rules against foreign multi-nationals in order to preserve their own investments. ...

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The main reason why this crisis was instigated was because countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines had embraced an unusual policy combination of liberalisation of controls on flows of financial capital on the one hand, and quasi -fixed heavily managed exchange rate systems on the other. ...

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