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Beyond the Crisis: Revisiting Emerging Europe’s Growth Model

By Ruben V Atoyan

April 1, 2010

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Ruben V Atoyan. Beyond the Crisis: Revisiting Emerging Europe’s Growth Model, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 12, 2024
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Summary

Focusing on the nexus between economic growth and buildup of external vulnerabilities, this paper provides a systematic account of different growth strategies followed in Central and Eastern Europe in 2000-08 and then uses this growth diagnostics to derive implications for the post-crisis recovery. The main findings point to three policy lessons for improving growth sustainability. First, greater reliance on tradable sectors should be the cornerstone of the future growth model. Second, enhancing domestic sources of bank credit funding would contribute to mitigation of external vulnerabilities and make domestic financial system more resilient to global financial shocks. Third, prudential and macroeconomic policies will have to be more proactive in managing capital inflows, including funneling these inflows into investment in the export-oriented industries.

Subject: Capital inflows, Credit, Current account deficits, External debt, Income

Keywords: Deficit, Economic growth, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    31

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/092

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010092

  • ISBN:

    9781451982565

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941