measures undertaken in recent years to promote growth in the nonoil and gas sector. Russia's export base has narrowed … various dimensions of Russia's trade performance, including export diversification, sophistication, and survival. A detailed …. Section four analyzes the competition environment in Russia, by presenting analyses of price-cost margins, state ownership …

Russia's exports became further dominated by petroleum and natural gas over the last decade. The sector experienced … double-digit annual export growth in the last decade and represented almost 65 percent of Russia's exports value in 2009 a … in Russia's trade performance. Moreover, Russia's revealed comparative advantage seems concentrated in the 'periphery' of …

competitive, knowledge based economy, and for involving Russia in the development process. A broad range of innovation policies …

"The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …) with respect to the level of development. "--World Bank web site …

to increase by 0.11 percentage point. This paper a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World Bank … Institute, is part of a larger effort in the Institute to assess the effects of knowledge on economic development"--World Bank …