Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …. -- corporate governance reform ; transparency and disclosure rules ; conflict between state and the controlling owner ; taxation …

and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an …

-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. -- income distribution ; inequality ; China ; Russia ; public …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …