Local remedy for Asian flu

Just because market economists usually agree that opening up Asian economie s to international markets is the best way to overcome Asian flu, it does n ot follow that Asians agree - especially when the Prescribed cure is distas teful. The International Monetary Fund has made opening national economics to international influence a condition Of loans to troubled Asian governmen ts. But if ifs advice is unwelcome, the conditions may be evaded or repudia ted, particularly by democratic governments lts accountable to national ele ctorates.