Social disparities in Russia were increasing since transition started in the 1990s on the background of decline of all social indicators. In the first decade of 2000-th growth of economy contributed to improvement of wellbeing of population. Policy of budgetary alignment and state social policy...

Designing an effective tax regime for small businesses remains a pressing issue. The authors engaged a comparative analysis of types and methods of tax incentives for small business and innovative business in global practice. It is concluded that the stimulating function of the taxation system...

Many developing countries have introduced sector-specific taxes on the consumption of mobile services, which apply on top of general taxes, and therefore discourage the positive externalities that have been estimated to be associated with the use of mobile technology on workers' productivity and...

The present paper describes the construction and first empirical application of the SUSTRUS model (the name of the model refers to "Sustainable Russia"). This model will be the main result of the same-named EU funded project. The SUSTRUS model belongs to the group of regional CGE models, applied...

The uneven economic and social development of various regions and municipalities in many countries is a negative consequence of the inefficient spatial organization of the economy. A system of spatial development indices is developed in the article using the example of Russian regions. A...