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IMF Staff Papers Logo Last updated: May 2002
Volume 48, Special Issue
 
The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: The Experience of Two Resident Representatives
Mark Allen and Rick Haas

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Abstract: This essay reflects the thoughts and experience of two staff members. Mark Allen has been a resident representative in both Poland (1990–93) and Hungary (1996–1998), two countries that have moved well along the road of transformation. Rick Haas was the resident representative in Belarus (1996–98), a country where much remains to be done. In some respects they had similar experiences, in others very dissimilar ones. In what follows they describe the circumstances they found themselves in, the advice they gave, the lessons they learned, and they recount some of their experiences as resident representatives. [JEL A13, E20, E50, E65, F15]

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