This paper surveys the evolution of the Canadian pension system to provide possible ideas for pension reform in Russia. Particular emphasis is placed on the Canadian voluntary, tax assisted retirement savings plans. Such plans can be used as an incentive mechanism to draw savings into the...

Three monetary regimes - the gold standard, a regime of 'socialism in many countries' and the post-Bretton Woods regime - and difficult transitions between them have shaped the economic history of the twentieth century. The regimes consisted of coherent sets of government policies and equally...