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In this 1988 book, Iliana Zloch-Christy analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s. In assessing the region's convertible-currency debt problem, the author addresses five main issues: the origins of the debt; the possibility that such a debt was essential to Eastern Europe's economic development; the effects of the countries' own adjustments to the problem; Western policies toward resolving the Eastern European debt difficulties; and the outlook for the debt during the rest of the 1980s. This book evaluates the flaws of the centrally planned economies that led to the crisis, as well as the countries' lack of effective structural adjustment. The author also covers the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and looks at the potential debt consequences of resurging East–West trade.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on state creditworthiness; List of abbreviations and symbols; 1. Economic growth, external disturbances, and macroeconomic adjustment in Eastern Europe; 2. Eastern European debt crisis; 3. Rescheduling Eastern European debt; 4. The role of international financial institutions in resolving the Eastern European debt problems; 5. Eastern European debt and the 'prisoners' dilemma'; 6. Lending to Eastern Europe: problems of country risk analysis; 7. Eastern European debt prospects; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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This 1998 book analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s.

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This 1998 book analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s.

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In this 1988 book, Iliana Zloch-Christy analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s. The author also covers the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and explores the potential debt consequences of resurging East-West trade.

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In this 1988 book, Iliana Zloch-Christy analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s. The author also covers the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and explores the potential debt consequences of resurging East-West trade.

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