The Baltic Countries: From Economic Stabilization to EU Accession

By Françoise Le Gall, L. Effie Psalida, Pietro Garibaldi, Julian Berengaut, Jerald A Schiff, Kerstin Westin, Augusto López-Claros, Richard E Stern, Dennis Jones

November 25, 1998

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Françoise Le Gall, L. Effie Psalida, Pietro Garibaldi, Julian Berengaut, Jerald A Schiff, Kerstin Westin, Augusto López-Claros, Richard E Stern, and Dennis Jones. The Baltic Countries: From Economic Stabilization to EU Accession, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

Are the three Baltic countries, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, ready for accession to the European Union? Have their economies overcome the problems of transition? The answers to these questions and their implications for policy are provided in this collection of analyses. Rather than a country-by-country description, the volume provides a cross-country perspective of developments from 1994 through mid-1997. The seven sections of this paper discuss recent macroeconomic and structural policies, exchange rate regimes, fiscal issues, financial systems, private sector development, and accession to the European Union.

Subject: Banking, Budget planning and preparation, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Exchange rate arrangements, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Privatization, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Accessing domestic, Baltics, Budget planning and preparation, Central and Eastern Europe, Commercial banks, Country, Eastern Europe, Europe, Exchange rate arrangements, Government, OP, Policy, Policy agenda, Policy objective, Policy outcome, Private sector development, Privatization, Western Europe

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Pages:

87
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Series:

Occasional Paper No. 1998/019
Stock No:

S173EA0000000
ISBN:

9781557757388
ISSN:

0251-6365

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