From Transition to Market: Evidence and Growth Prospects

Author/Editor:

Ratna Sahay ; Stanley Fischer ; Carlos A. Végh Gramont

Publication Date:

April 1, 1998

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper presents evidence on the behavior of output and inflation in the transition economies during 1992–95. A regression analysis explores the differences in output performance across the transition economies during this period. The paper then engages in a numerical, somewhat speculative, exercise to assess the long-run growth potential of the transition economies. It concludes that it should take about 20 years for the faster reformers to reach current OECD per capita levels.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/052

Subject:

Conventional peg Exchange rate arrangements Foreign exchange Government consumption Inflation National accounts Population and demographics Population growth Prices

Notes:

This paper was prepared for an OECD Volume on Lessons from the Economic Transition: Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s and presented at the OECD colloquium, held in Paris on May 29-30, 1996.

English

Publication Date:

April 1, 1998

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451847222/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0521998

Pages:

36

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