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Source: Romania : Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 1998/123
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 November 1998
ISBN: 9781451832693
Keywords: lead, gas, copper, iron
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discuss...

Romania »
Source: Romania : Recent Economic Developments
Volume/Issue: 1997/46
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 July 1997
ISBN: 9781451832686
Keywords: pos, prices, credit, payments, shares
This paper reviews economic developments in Romania during 1990-97. Reforms have been relatively slow since the beginning of the transition process. Except for a brief and inconsequential interlude in 1993, compreh...

2 Financial and Enterprise Restructuring in Emerging Market Economies »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
Building sound financial systems is fundamental to developing viable market economies where central planning once prevailed. In a market economy, it is the financial system that cha...

1 Introduction »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
Building a sound, efficient financial system is at the heart of the transformation from central planning to a market economy. The vital function that the financial system performs i...

7 The Role of Financial Institutions in the Transition to a Market Economy »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
Policymakers in the formerly centrally planned economies face the formidable task of creating functioning market economies in environments in which market mechanisms have been suppr...

13. Roundtable on Financial Reforms and Their Implementation »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
In this roundtable, we have been asked to address three basic questions that arose in the various sessions of the conference: How to handle the issue of bank portfolios or how to de...

9 Revising Financial Sector Policy in Transitional Socialist Economies: Will Universal Banks Prove Viable? »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
This paper focuses on efforts under way in most transitional socialist economies to revise and update financial sector regulatory policy. It questions whether the banks that emerge...

11 Credit Market Imperfections and Output Response in Previously Centrally Planned Economies »
Source: Building Sound Finance in Emerging Market Economies : Proceedings of a Conference held in Washington, D.C., June 10-11, 1993
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
ISBN: 9781557753809
Keywords: credit, banking, payments, payment system, banking system
Introduction The reform programs launched in Central and Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union have been accompanied by a sharp, and partly unexpected, fall in output (Chart...

Back Matter »
Source: The Romanian Economic Reform Program
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Mohsin Khan , and Dimitri Demekas
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1991
ISBN: 9781557751904
Keywords: banking, foreign trade, foreign exchange, price liberalization, reform program
This paper outlines the main characteristics and the development of the centrally planned economic sysetm in Romania before the beginnings of the transition to a market eonomy it then presents the design, objective...