for productivity improvements, which are urgently required to ensure stronger growth in Russia because of a shrinking …

This paper summarizes the estimates of what Russia will get from World Trade Organization accession and why. A key … finding is the estimate that Russia will gain about …

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

questionnaires completed by specialized research institutes in Russia. The authors estimate that Russia will gain about 7.2 percent … estimate that the largest gains to Russia will derive from liberalization of barriers against multinational service providers …

May 2000 - Russia gets relatively little foreign direct investment and almost none of the newer, more efficient kind …) still governs Russia. In this paradigm there are only two reasons for foreign direct investment: access to inputs for … necessarily at world standards for price and quality. They contend that Russia should phase out high tariffs and nontariff …