Fiscal gap is an indicator of long run sustainability of government finance. It is used for assessment of the extent to which current fiscal policy is able to keep government budget solvent in the longer period. Fiscal gap is derived from intertemporal budget constraint which connects flows of...

This comprehensive analysis of the Russian budget policy adjustment to the 2008–2009 global crisis. The analysis of main parameters and directions of anticrisis budgetary measures offers insights into their relative efficiency and monitor their impact on the budget policy in 2011–2013....

This comprehensive analysis of the Russian budget policy adjustment to the 2008–2009 global crisis. The analysis of main parameters and directions of anticrisis budgetary measures offers insights into their relative efficiency and monitor their impact on the budget policy in 2011–2013....

This paper deals with subnation budgets of the Russian Federation. The authors analyze financial support to the regions from the federal budget.

An international crisis of 2008 – 2009, ever growing debt challenges in Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal in 2010 prompted the Government of the Russian Federation to revise the approach to the policy of irresponsible build-up of government expenses and obligations. A trend to curb budget...

This paper deals with Russia's budget system, it provides analysis of main parameters of execution of the enlarged government budget. The authros also speak about the medium- and long term prospects of Russia's fiscal policy

This paper deals with the issues of the Russia's federal budget in 2008. The authors focused on the general characteristics of the RF budget system, execution of the federal budget in 2008, analysis of collection of main taxes, expenditures, and assesment of budget parameters without regard to...

This paper deals with 2008-2009 crisis which marked a new stage of Russia’s budgetary policy. Although the budget situation in Russia is presently much better than in the majority of the developed countries, reservation of high dependence on oil proceeds, observed trends in in the structure of...

The analysis of events of the First Intifada focused on the question of how well founded the decisions made at the time were to introduce radical changes in the terror-fighting strategy. Most sources treat the process at Oslo as an outgrowth of Israel’s inability to suppress the Arab riots. We...

In this paper we consider questions of morality as a factor impacting trust in society, as an important element of the “soft” infrastructure. Morality is the institution which, if it is maintained in an appropriate condition, is capable of significantly raising the efficacy level of the...