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10 years ago Czech Republic rejoined IMF and World Bank

09/21/2000
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It's ten years since Czechoslovakia rejoined the IMF and the World Bank after forty years of communist rule. Since then, the Czech economy has undergone a drastic transformation from a centrally-planned economy to a free market. But what role did the two institutions play in this process? Vladimir Tax spoke to Ivan Pilip, who was Czech finance minister in the mid-1990s:

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