
The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2001/169
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Gonzalo Pastor , and Tatiana Damjanovic
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451858341.001
ISBN: 9781451858341
Keywords: Russian financial crisis, external debt issues, exchange rate, foreign exchange, exchange rates, external debt, exchange rate flexibility, Studies of Particular Policy Episodes, Kyrgyzstan,
This paper reviews the economic conditions in central Asia at the time of the Russian financial crisis of August 1998; the channels by which the crisis was transmitted to the central Asian region; and the policy re...