Stabilization and Reform in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Evaluation

Stabilization and Reform in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Evaluation
ISBN-10
1451844859
ISBN-13
9781451844856
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
44
Language
English
Published
1992-05-01
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Author
Mr.Michael Bruno

Description

The paper analyzes common issues emerging from the recent experience with Fund-supported programs in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. These comprise the initial price-overshooting and the output collapse, fiscal sustainability as well as the financial and structural problems associated with bad loan portfolios and sluggish implementation of privatization programs. Substantial success, in varying degrees, has been achieved in the initial macro-stabilization and opening-up effort. At the same time mounting difficulties with fiscal and monetary control may be emerging, as a result of social and political pressures and insufficiently clear policy signals on the micro-issues involving the sharp structural transformation of the productive and financial systems.

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