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in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis, Southeast Asia had been overtaken by China and India |
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some are being left behind by foreign businesses |
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across Southeast Asia, the impact of the 1997 crisis was closely related with the degree of corruption in the banking system |
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today, South Korea and Taiwan are four times richer than Malaysia and ten times richer than Indonesia |
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compared with other regions of the world, Asia's income gap is slowly decreasing |