Debt Problems of Eastern Europe (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: First Edition, 1/7/1988
EAN 9780521335423, ISBN10: 0521335426
Hardcover, 242 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
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.
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.