Belarus: Selected Issues

February 19, 2002

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Belarus: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews the external competitiveness of the Belarusian economy, particularly in 2000–01. The analysis starts with an overview of developments in Belarus’ external current account. The paper then examines various competitiveness indicators, most importantly changes in external and internal real exchange rates, as well as labor cost measures. It reviews trade data by sectors to explain recent export performance. The paper also provides an overview of current wage policy and its macroeconomic effects.

Subject: Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Labor, Multiple currency practices, Real exchange rates, Wage adjustments, Wage policy, Wages

Keywords: B. wage Policy, Baltics, Belarus, Common currency, Cost recovery, CR, Europe, Exchange rates, Gas arrears, Government, ISCR, Multiple currency practices, Policy challenge, Subsidy, Wage, Wage adjustments, Wage policy, Wages, Western Europe

Publication Details

Pages:

120
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2002/022
Stock No:

1BLREA0012002
ISBN:

9781451805062
ISSN:

1934-7685

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