Towards Market Economies: The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Countries - Softcover

Odling-Smee, John

 
9780761873624: Towards Market Economies: The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Countries
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761873627 ISBN 13: 9780761873624
Publisher: Hamilton Books, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Hamilton Books
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761873627
ISBN 13 
9780761873624
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248