The study addresses the processes relating to the implementation of municipal reform in the republics of the North Caucasus and the Republic of Kalmykia. The authors analyze some formal parameters of implementing municipal reform: the rate of reforming, the territorial organization of local...

Present work contains municipal reform implmentation results for 2007. The authors analyzed modifications in the federal legislation regarding local selfgovernance, regional legislation which regulates issues relatyed to newly created settlements in transition period. The authors analyzed...

The paper considers territorial models of local selfgovernance that had emerged in Russian regions prior to the reform and their impact on various aspects of municipal establishments' activities. The authors evaluate the regional law in the area of local selfgovernance and interbudgetary...

Within the framework of this study, we have been monitoring the development of municipal reform from the moment of the enactment of Federal Law No. 131-FZ, “On general principles of the organization of local selfgovernment in the Russian Federation”, until mid-year 2006. This paper describes...

This article deals with the problems on the North Caucasus Federal districtþ

In 2005 Russian Federation moved from the elections of the regional governor to their appointment by the federal center. The study analyzes the possible changes in the regional governments fiscal policy due to the change of the preferences aggregation mechanism at the regional level. It includes...

Organizational and financial issues related to the governance of municipalities were examined in this work with the aim to analyze regional peculiarities of municipal reform during transition period. Analysis was conducted with the help of budget statistics for the first half of 2006 and...

This paper deals with Russia’s market for municipal and sub-federal borrowings.

The objective of the work is the analysis of the impact of grants, allocated from the central government budget for the expenditures of regional budgets, and the “sticker” effect, which means a traditional disproportion between the federal transfers and the amount of regional expenditure. In...

It is for nearly half a century that the problem of measuring efficiency of provision of assistance by more developed countries to less developed ones has been in the center of attention of economists. Notably, in the period after World War II the world has witnessed several stages (models) of...