The low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Subtitle: progress and challenges in transition
By: edited by Clinton R. Shiells and Sarosh Sattar.
Contributors: Shiells, Clinton R.; Sattar, Sarosh.; Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Progress and Challenges (2003 : Lucerne, Switzerland)
Publisher: International Monetary Fund; World Bank
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Commonwealth of Independent States.; Poverty -- Former Soviet republics.; Expenditures, Public -- Former Soviet republics.; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.; Former Soviet republics -- Commerce.
Other titles: Low income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Description: Summary of and selected papers from the Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Progress and Challenges conference, held January 20-22, 2003, in Switzerland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Summary of and selected papers from the Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Progress and Challenges conference, held January 20-22, 2003, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Mohsin Khan, Shigeo Katsu -- Overview / -- Samuel Otoo, Sarosh Sattar, and Ekaterine Vashakmadze; title: Debt accumulation in the CIS-7 countries: bad luck, bad policies, or bad advice? -- Thomas Helbling, Ashoka Mody, and Ratna Sahay; title: The international community and the CIS-7 countries -- Philip R. Lane; title: Structural reform in the CIS-7 countries -- Richard Pomfret; title: Public expenditure in the CIS-7 countries -- Mary Betley; title: Inequality and poverty in the CIS-7 countries, 1989-2002 -- Jane Falkingham; title: Growth and rural poverty in the CIS-7 countries: case studies of Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova -- Louise Cord ... [et al.]; title: Political obstacles to economic reform in Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan: strategies for moving ahead -- Pauline Jones Luong; title: Economic development and private sector growth in the CIS-7 countries: challenges and policy implications -- Naacy Vandycke; title: The integration of low-income CIS-7 countries into the world trading system -- Constantine Michalopoulos; title: Low pressure, high tension: the energy-water nexus in the CIS-7 countries -- David Kennedy, Samuel Fankhauser, and Martin Raiser.