Such measures are a far cry from 1997, when rather than urging households to spend, governments in Asia begged them to hand over their gold jewellery to be melted down to bolster official reserves.

• 这样的措施与1997年时有很大的不同，那时亚洲政府没有呼吁家庭增加消费，而是哀求他们把金首饰献给国家，帮助官方增加黄金储备。