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Rapid Growth in the CIS: Panel Regression Approach

By Garbis Iradian

July 1, 2007

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Garbis Iradian. Rapid Growth in the CIS: Panel Regression Approach, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper analytically explores and empirically tests a number of hypotheses to explain the rapid growth in transition economies. The paper finds that growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been higher because of the recovery of lost output, progress in macroeconomic stabilization and market reforms, and favorable external conditions. Some of these factors are unlikely to continue for a very long time. The challenge is to improve the investment climate in the non-primary sectors, which will require broadening the scope of macroeconomic reform into a second generation of reforms encompassing structural and institutional areas.

Subject: Government consumption, Outward remittances, Remittances, Terms of trade, Total factor productivity

Keywords: CIS country, CIS economy, Economic growth, Real GDP, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2007/170

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2007170

  • ISBN:

    9781451867343

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941