Policy Experiences and Issues in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Series:: Occasional Papers
Author(s):: Daniel Citrin, and Ashok Lahiri
Publisher:: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:: June 1995
DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557755186.084
ISBN:: 9781557755186
ISSN:: 0251-6365
Page:: 135

This papers reviews the common challenges and key issues in the transition process, including the decline in output and determinants of future growth; the behavior of inflation and velocity and implications for stabilization policy; interenterprise arrears; fixed versus flexible exchange rates in stabilization; external financial assistance; and the political economy of macro stabilization, Russia and the IMF.

Policy Experiences and Issues in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Front Matter

I Overview
II The Decline in Output
III The Behavior of Inflation and Velocity
IV Interenterprise Arrears
V The Revenue Decline
VI Stabilization: Fixed Versus Flexible Exchange Rates
VII External Financial Assistance: The Record and Issues
VIII Russia and the IMF: The Political Economy of Macrostabilization

Back Matter

Policy Experiences and Issues in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

III The Behavior of Inflation and Velocity

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