My Lords, I appreciate the Minister's reply, but is he aware that during the East Asian Financial Crisis there was a sharp drop in the recruitment of children to primary schools; for example, in Indonesia by as much as 20 per cent?

Total public debt amounts to 90 per cent of GDP, and poverty has risen sharply as a result of the East Asian Financial Crisis.

They also need to rebuild an economy that has been ravaged by the East Asian Financial Crisis, and to loosen the old forces of control while building new frameworks for political expression.