Compliance with IMF program indicators and growth in transition economies

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 55-83

  Mercer Blackman, Valerie ^a   Unigovskaya, Anna ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

IMF program evaluation; Initial conditions; Performance criteria; Structural benchmark; Transition and growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942707904     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2004.11052574     Document Type: Review

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