Title The low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States : progress and challenges in transition / edited by Clinton R. Shiells and Sarosh Sattar

Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund : World Bank, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface / Mohsin Khan, Shigeo Katsu -- Overview / Samuel Otoo, Sarosh Sattar, and Ekaterine Vashakmadze -- Debt accumulation in the CIS-7 countries: bad luck, bad policies, or bad advice? / Thomas Helbling, Ashoka Mody, and Ratna Sahay -- The international community and the CIS-7 countries / Philip R. Lane -- Structural reform in the CIS-7 countries / Richard Pomfret -- Public expenditure in the CIS-7 countries / Mary Betley -- Inequality and poverty in the CIS-7 countries, 1989-2002 / Jane Falkingham -- Growth and rural poverty in the CIS-7 countries: case studies of Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova / Louise Cord [and others] -- Political obstacles to economic reform in Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan: strategies for moving ahead / Pauline Jones Luong -- Economic development and private sector growth in the CIS-7 countries: challenges and policy implications / Naacy Vandycke -- The integration of low-income CIS-7 countries into the world trading system / Constantine Michalopoulos -- Low pressure, high tension: the energy-water nexus in the CIS-7 countries / David Kennedy, Samuel Fankhauser, and Martin Raiser Summary The CIS-7 Initiative was launched in 2002 and endorsed by ministers from the CIS-7 and donor countries, with the objective of promoting poverty reduction, economic growth, and debt sustainability among the seven poorest countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This volume draws from the follow-up conference held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in January 2003. The objective of this conference was to achieve an understanding of the development agenda in the seven countries and the key policy measures to be taken by the governments and donors to improve future prospects for the countries' populations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Commonwealth of Independent States. SUBJECT Commonwealth of Independent States fast Subject Poverty -- Former Soviet republics Poverty -- Former Soviet republics -- Congresses Commerce Economic history Expenditures, Public Poverty Wirtschaftsentwicklung Armut Armoede. Overheidsuitgaven. Economische situatie. ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION. POVERTY. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. PUBLIC EXPENDITURES. PUBLIC DEBT. COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES. SUBJECT Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions Former Soviet republics -- Commerce Former Soviet republics -- Appropriations and expenditures Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions -- Congresses Former Soviet republics -- Commerce -- Congresses Subject Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics GUS. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Shiells, Clinton R., editor. Sattar, Sarosh, editor. Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Progress and Challenges (2003 : Lucerne, Switzerland) ISBN 1455293091 9781455293094

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