This issue combines an analysis of recent developments in the Russian economy with discussions of two critical issues for economic policy: achieving diversified growth and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The conclusions are rather optimistic. There is much that the Russian...

Russia is a country of global importance and great internal diversity, making it challenging to undertake acoherent country growth diagnostic. The world's largest transcontinental country spans eleven time zones in northern Eurasia. Russia is the main trading partner for many of its more than a...