Talk:Economy of Belarus

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[edit] Poverty

In the Belarus article it says it has fallen, here the opposite? Where is the truth? 83.5.184.116 19:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

This article is completely biased. It leaves little mention of the high economic stability and growth in Belars and focuses completely on groups like the world bank and people who think Belarus should privitize its industries. This article seems to be the IMF/CIA viewpoint on the Belarus economy, containing huge amounts of criticism and little support. It needs lots of editing or even a rewrite to make it NPOV. See the far more neutral economy section in the Belarus article. 72.139.119.165 00:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to write something better, then. Generally speaking, the IMF and the World Bank have a pretty good idea which country is on sound economic footing and which isn't, though. 195.210.192.73 21:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Really do they now? Stiglitz has pointed out on numerous occasions that they simply do not...User:Wejamire

I can see what you mean about POV; despite the doom-and-gloom assesment of the Belarussian economy, the graph shows GDP growth rates hovering in the 9%-10% range; whilst neighbouring Ukraine, a comparative darling of the world bank, is growing at about half that rate - both countries having started from roughly the same level when the USSR collapsed.

I'm not saying its all coming up roses. But we need to balance the world bank view, with an alternative opinion. Damburger 11:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The odd thing is that some of it doesn't even make much sense... how can internal consumption be mainly "stimulated through the administratively-imposed growth of average salaries"? I would think it would take far more than that... a similar strategy isn't working so well for Zimbabwe at the moment. Also, what about this: "the economy remains dependent on Russian subsidies. Until 2000, subsidies to state enterprises ... constituted a major feature of the Belarusian economy." So is it dependent now, or was it dependent until the year 2000? It's contradictory... Esn 08:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)