Towards Market Economies: The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Countries - Paperback

by John Odling-Smee (Author)

The book is a personal account of the changes in the economies, politics and societies of former Soviet Union countries, and the role of the IMF in helping them make the transition from planned to market economies. From 1992 to 2003, the author was in charge of the IMF's work on the fifteen countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union.

Author Biography

John Odling-Smee is a retired economist who taught economics at Oxford University, advised the governments of Ghana and the UK on economic policy and headed the department at the International Monetary Fund responsible for relations with the fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union.