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This paper reviews the extent to which the Fund’s trade policy advice to the Baltic countries, Russia and other …
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We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in … Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results … point to the continued existence of economic links between the CIS countries and Russia, though these links may have altered …
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The paper identifies a number of stylized facts on the behavior of key macroeconomic variables during high inflation and stabilization in countries in transition. To examine the extent to which these stylized facts conform to the predictions of standard open economy monetary theory, the paper...
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Many countries among the Baltics, Russia and other CIS states are increasingly borrowing on international capital …
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On occasions, by running arrears, governments have unilaterally borrowed from domestic agents. These agents ended up with implicit claims on the government for which they had no title and that would be honored, at best, on an unspecified future date and for an uncertain value. Having untitled...
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A higher degree of de jure autonomy and accountability of the central banks of the Baltic states, Russia, and other …
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Significant capital inflows were observed during the first half of 1995 in a number of FSU countries. This paper reviews the recent experience of those countries with significant inflows, examines policy responses in view of the current macroeconomic and institutional environment, discusses the...
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This paper addresses the major issues concerning the compilation of money and banking statistics for the fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union (FSU), including (1) the treatment of ruble currency circulation and (2) the classification of claims on FSU financial institutions. The paper...
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Russia, the Baltic states and the other countries of the former Soviet Union inherited health and education systems …
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The output contractions during the initial transition stages in the Baltics and in Russia and the other CIS countries …
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