New Delhi, 28 Oct (Jayati Ghosh*) -- It is clear from the past few weeks
that the developing world is far from immune to the financial crisis
originating in the West. Stock prices in emerging markets have gone on
similar roller coaster rides to those in New York and Europe.

Indeed, they have shown such very high volatility, going sharply up and down
on a daily basis around an overall declining trend, that the pattern is
reminiscent of the behaviour of stock indices in 1929/30 at the start of the
Great Depression.