Turkmenistan : Recent Economic Developments.

This paper reviews economic developments in Turkmenistan during 1994-98. Turkmenistan reduced gas exports and suffered a decline in real GDP of close to 40 percent during 1993-95. At the same time, it stepped up foreign borrowing and constrained imports by limiting access to foreign exchange to sust...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 1998/081
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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