(Al Jazeera English) Wrong Lessons from Latvia for the Eurozone
Al Jazeera English: Using the Baltic state’s austerity programmes as an example for the rest of Europe is wrongheaded.
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The Latvian Model
(The Guardian) Europe’s Crisis and Latvia’s “Success”
The Guardian: Saying Latvia’s policy of internal devaluation was an economic success is a bit like bragging about America’s Great Depression.
Latvia’s Internal Devaluation: A Success Story?
December 2011, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray
The European Central Bank Sinks Ireland
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 22, 2010
Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”
February 2010, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray
Latvia Shows the Damage That Far Right Economic Policy Can Do – With Support from the European Union and IMF
Mark Weisbrot The Guardian Unlimited, January 15, 2010
IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
October 2009, Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Jake Johnston, Jose Antonio Cordero and Juan Antonio Montecino
The IMF’s Stand-by Arrangements and the Economic Downturn in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine
September 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero