Despite the impressive economic growth in Russia between 1999 and 2007, there is a fear that Russia may suffer the Dutch disease, which predicts that a country with large natural resource rents may experience a de-industrialisation and a lower long term economic growth. In this paper we study if...

Social policy and the health crisis in the new Russia / Nadia Davidova ... [et al.] -- Measuring the population's health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Understanding health / Svetlana Goryunova and Nataliya Tikhonova -- Inequalities and health / Nataliya Tikhonova -- Poverty in post-reform Russia /...

This paper has four objectives: 1. To offer an analysis of public administration reform experiences in a set of countries chosen to illustrate the range and depth of recent administrative change. 2. To pick out from this analysis those variables that seem particularly relevant to the current...