Die russische Finanzkrise des Jahres 1998 wies nicht nur Züge einer klassischen Währungskrise auf, sondern war auch …

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

After 18 years of negotiations, Russia has joined the World Trade Organization. This paper assesses how the tariff … average “bound” tariff rate of Russia under its World Trade Organization commitments will be 8.6 percent, that is, 0 ….7 percentage points higher than the applied tariffs. Russia's commitments represent significant tariff liberalization, but compared …

This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region … Trade Organization accession along with environmental emissions data in Russia for seven pollutants that are tracked for all … Organization accession allows Russia to import better technologies and reduce pollution from the “technique effect,” on balance …

This paper develops a seven-region comparative static computable general equilibrium model of Russia to assess the … impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on these seven regions (the federal okrugs) of Russia. In order to assess …

In this paper we develop a computable general equilibrium model of the regions of Russia to assess the impact of … accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate that the average gain in welfare as a …

Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this … described here is available on the website www.worldbank.org/trade/russia-wto. This paper first explains the potential … first part treats trade policy (with applications to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS]). The second …