The IMF and the Stormy Decade
Celebrating the new year in Berlin in 1990. The fall of the Berlin wall ushered in an era of economic reforms in Eastern Europe (Corbis/Wolfgang Kumm)
In This Episode
The 1990s was a momentous time for the IMF. The organization oversaw the transition of many former Eastern bloc countries into market economies, played an important role in the aftermath of major capital account crises, all the while, introducing historic reforms back at headquarters. The IMF’s official historian talks about this tumultuous era
