A NOTE ON GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY
2 The World Bank, World Bank Atlas (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank), 1997.
3 ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, January 3, 1998.
4 Belarus has been subject to criticism on innumerable occasions from both the World Bank and the IMF for not carrying out economic reforms to which substantial financial aid has been pegged. The IMF announced in April 1998 that its representative office in Minsk is to close at the end of June, citing differing views on economic reform such as liberalization of the currency market, price formation, increasing barter trade, and the ineffective use of targeted loans.
5 Data taken from the New York Times 1998 Almanac (New York: Penguin, 1997).

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