Questão de Língua InglesaSecretaria do Tesouro Nacional (STN) - Analista de Finanças e Controle AFC (Prova 1 Geral Comum a Todos os Cargos de AFC)

Read the text below in order to answer questions 24 to 26:

ASIAN CRISIS, TAKE TWO?

As global interest rates tighten and current account surpluses begin to vanish, servicing the new mountains of public-sector debt and outstanding private debt will become critical concerns before the end of this year. East Asia's V-shaped recovery is in imminent danger of giving way to the dreaded double dip.

Few analysts now foresee the type of precipitous decline witnessed in 1997-1998. There is talk instead of the Latin-Americanization of the Southeast Asian economies – meaning, in essence, that they are in danger of becoming irrelevant backwaters. But that's the optimistic view.

The author refers to the Latin-Americanization of the Southeast Asian economies, which means they