From Inflation to Growth: Eight Years of Transition

Author/Editor:

Peter Doyle ; Peter F. Christoffersen

Publication Date:

July 1, 1998

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper reexamines growth in transition using panel data to 1997. It suggests that output has been strongly affected by export market growth; that inflation has been associated with weaker output only above a threshold inflation rate; that structural reform has been associated with weaker output initially, but that it stimulates higher growth thereafter; and that rapid disinflation has been associated with output losses only in the presence of pegged exchange rates.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/100

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

July 1, 1998

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451852370/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1001998

Pages:

36

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