The following symbols have been used throughout this paper: to indicate that data are not available;-to indicate that the figure is zero or less than half the final digit shown, or that the item does not exist;-between years or months (e.g., 1979-81 or January-June) to indicate the years or months covered, including the beginning and ending years or months;/ between years (e.g., 1980/81) to indicate a crop or fiscal (financial) year."Billion" means a thousand million.Minor discrepancies between constituent figures and totals are due to rounding.

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2 See IMF (2002a). 3 See IMF (2002c). 4 See IMF (2003d). 5 Michael Mussa, the former economic counselor of the IMF, presents one informed, but personal, account of what went wrong in Argentina in his monograph entitled Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy (Mussa, 2002). 6 See IMF (2003a). For an initial IMF perspective on the origins of the crisis and the ensuing policy responses in 2002, see IMF (2003c).

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