Measuring the Transition: A User's Viewon National Accounts in Russia

Author/Editor:

Vincent Koen

Publication Date:

January 1, 1994

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Summary:

As Russia’s transition unfolds, the traditional national accounts concepts and reporting mechanisms become increasingly inadequate. As a result, the margin of error associated with basic price and quantity estimates widens substantially. A selection of key measurement and interpretation issues is discussed here, in operational rather than in methodological terms.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1994/006

Subject:

Consumer price indexes Deflation Inflation National accounts Price indexes Prices Producer price indexes

English

Publication Date:

January 1, 1994

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451842258/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0061994

Pages:

26

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