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wiiw Seminar Series
'Crisis Management in Central, East and Southeast Europe: What is
to be done?' |
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Vladimir
Gligorov, Senior Economist, The Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw)
Changing IMF: Models and Programmes
25 May 2009, 5 p.m. |
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The recent
changes in the IMF approach to crisis management suggest a change
in the theoretical model on which operational programmes are
to be based. In the programmes negotiated with the Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESE) countries this model
change cannot be easily detected, at least not so far. This
leads to two questions: how are new ideas and instruments related
to the underlying IMF model and what are the assumptions on
which the recent programmes with the CESE are based? In the
context of these questions, the surveillance criteria are of
particular interest; i.e., the relationship between sustainability
and quantitative conditions and the role of structural reforms.
Vladimir Gligorov is senior researcher at the Vienna Institute
for International Economic Studies (wiiw). His previous appointments
were at Columbia University, New York; Belgrade University,
Serbia; George-Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Uppsala
University, Sweden. He has been working as a consultant of the
OECD, The World Bank and the UNDP. He has published several
books in English, e.g., Why Do Countries Break Up? The Case
of Yugoslavia (1994, second edition forthcoming in 2009)
and Balkan Reconstruction: Economic Aspects (2000). Currently
he is working mostly on the economies of Southeast Europe. |
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