A real good study of the decade would have to begin with questions about the IMF and World Bank in 1980s Yugoslavia. Here we are talking about a proud Communist country whose economy became a basket case overnight.

IIRC, a communist country that more cooperative economics then the rest, and as such was seen as a possible middle-way.

I would be very itnerested in reading more about the IMF and World Bank interventions.

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