Russia’s Crash of August 1998: Diagnosis and Prescription

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-36

  Sapir, Jacques ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; NATIONAL ECONOMY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032776129     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.1999.10641460     Document Type: Article

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