Towards Market Economies

The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Countries

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The book is about economic developments and policies in the first decade or so after the independence of the fifteen countries that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. From 1992 to 2003, the author was in charge of the IMF’s work on the fifteen countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union. In those years, the countries were beginning the transition from the Soviet central planning system towards market economies. The book focuses on the role of the IMF in this transition. It explains what the IMF was trying to do and why.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761873624

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Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

John Odling-Smee is a retired economist who taught economics at Oxford University, advised the governments of Ghana and the UK on economic policy and headed the department at the International Monetary Fund responsible for relations with the fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union.

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The style of the book is calm and reasoned. The author does not defend the IMF or himself, but does suggest what might have been done differently—maybe not by the IMF, but by the countries in transition. He shows how deep political weakness—above all, corruption and cronyism— prevented the growth of real market economies

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface Chapter 1: The Hammer and Sickle Chapter 2: Fifteen New FlagsChapter 3: Stop Doing Whatever You Were Doing BeforeChapter 4: Russia: It Turned Out as Always Chapter 5: Ukraine: Someday We Will Chapter 6: The Baltic States Chapter 7: Other CIS Countries Chapter 8: A Longer Perspective Further ReadingIMF WorksOther WorksAbout the Author