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This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by … Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are relevant to Russia and other transition countries over the last two decades … also key for Russia’s strategy to modernize and diversify its economy away from oil, gas and minerals extraction. However …
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Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …
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The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia … recovered and partly achieved their pre-1991 levels at the end of the last decade. The paper depicts Russia's reform efforts and … demonstrated. The patrimonial system that persisted for centuries is still observable at the state level. At any rate, Russia can …
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examine the viability of Resource Curse theory for Iran, Russia and Norway to see whether natural resources are curse or … Iran with Turkey and Russia with China to illustrate the negative effects of oil revenue on economic performance. The … successful oil rich country shows that efficient institutions can turn natural resource into blessing; while Iran's and Russia …
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Russia offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
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This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...
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The goal of this paper is to apply the theory of the political Kuznets curve to Russia and reveal the key determinants …
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Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian … by Russia's annexation of Crimea. Unconditional quantile regressions are applied to 2000-2016 surveys to estimate the …
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Variation in living standards across Europe, especially in income, has decreased over the last few decades, but the last recession brought convergence to a halt. This paper asks, first, whether sigma-convergence is found when other dimensions of inequality are taken into account, and second,...
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