IMF Staff Country Reports

Turkmenistan: Recent Economic Developments

December 10, 1999

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Turkmenistan: Recent Economic Developments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed December 29, 2024

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This paper reviews economic developments in Turkmenistan during 1996–99. Inflation is an issue in Turkmenistan. The trend decline that started in mid-1996 came to a halt in late 1998 and inflation continued to increase in 1999. By mid-1999, 12-month inflation had increased to 25 percent. Owing to payment problems, gas exports to Ukraine were discontinued in early 1997, resulting in a sharp decline in real GDP in that year. In 1998, gas exports did not resume, other than small deliveries to Iran through a new pipeline that had become operational at end-1997.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Commodities, Currencies, Exports, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, International trade, Money, Oil

Keywords: Budget deficit, Central bank, Commercial bank, Commercial banks, CR, Currencies, Debt service, Economic activity, Exchange rate, Exports, Foreign exchange, ISCR, Oil, Southern Europe, U.S. dollar, Western Europe

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    130

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/140

  • Stock No:

    1TKMEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451837247

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685