As Russia continues to make rapid general progress in building modem market institutions, the complex spatial dimension … related to the question of what type of a national regional strategy, if any, might be useful for Russia. …

. The report starts with the hypothesis that Russia's economy is still "in transition," with further scope to boost growth … powerful determinant of Russia's medium-term growth and long-term prospects. There are other contributors to growth, most … notably, the role that high hydrocarbon prices have played in Russia's rapid recovery from the 1998 crisis. In order to …

Russia is reforming its education system to meet the needs of the country's evolving economic structure with its … Government of Russia is investing a significant part of its limited education budget into Information and Computer Technology …; and appropriate skills to be developed by students. The report then describes the situation in Russia as it exists today …

numbers of students enrolled. Five of the six case study countries, Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Russian …

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 …

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 …