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National Journal
December 4, 1999

What Went Wrong. (Excerpt)

Paul Starobin

"Within two years of the Wall's fall, Big Bangery was established orthodoxy at every Washington-based institution that mattered: the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. These were the agencies that supplied loans, grants, and other types of assistance to the former Soviet world--and they made such aid conditional on the adoption of Big Bang prescriptions. Moreover, Washington sent the message out to the field. "Privatization is our first, second, and third priority," a U.S. AID bureaucrat in Central Europe told Janine Wedel, an anthropologist who's the author of a recently published book, Collision and Collusion, on Western assistance to Eastern Europe."

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