IMF Publishes Guide for Macro Policymakers in Transition Economies

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In an effort to provide a clear and comprehensive exposition of basic applied macroeconomics for policymakers and analysts in transition economies without formal training in western economics, the IMF has published a book entitled Macroeconomic Accounting and Analysis in Transition Economies, by Abdessatar Ouanes and Subhash Thakur of the IMF Institute. The manual provides practitioners with a guidebook to the core macroeconomic concepts underlying policymaking and offers directions for further exploration of the key issues. It presents the macroeconomic framework and illustrates the accounting and analysis for a transition economy with...