英国隆巴德街研究所所长布赖恩·雷丁5月18日在英国《欧洲人报》发表文章指出,目前正在形成一场全球性危机。人们认为1997年的亚洲危机正是那样的危机——基本上是亚洲危机。这场危机必然会影响美洲、欧洲、尤其影响日本;但是只要这场危机限于亚洲五个国家,危机对全球的影响就是微不足道的,在某些方面还是有利的。世界商品价格已下降,增加了工业国家 Brian Redding, director of the Institute of Lombard Street in the United Kingdom, said in an article published in the “European Quarterly” on May 18 that a global crisis is now taking shape. It is thought that the 1997 crisis in Asia was such a crisis - basically an Asian crisis. The crisis will inevitably affect the Americas and Europe and especially Japan. However, as long as the crisis is confined to five Asian countries, the global impact of the crisis will be negligible and in some respects favorable. World commodity prices have dropped, adding to industrialized countries