The objective of this paper is to examine the nature of India's federal system, the reforms that have occurred over the last ten years, and what remains to be done. We begin by briefly describing the key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for center-state...

In the open economy control conditions, the government's main concern should be ensurance of macroeconomic stabilization. One of real tools for achieving this goal is monetary and budgetary levers' combination, in which strong fiscal stimuls should be merged with monetary policy, although...

This paper takes stock of the global economic recovery a decade after the 2008 financial crisis. Output losses after the crisis appear to be persistent, irrespective of whether a country suffered a banking crisis in 2007-08. Sluggish investment was a key channel through which these losses...

In last decade, the world economy has seen a twin glut in which a commodity glut depressed commodity prices and export values since 2014, while a liquidity glut boosted equity values and capital flows, creating a new reality in which net capital inflows for most countries and regions now surpass...

Turkish economic growth depends on capital inflows and access to cheap credit sources. Once the global financial conditions tightened in 2018, Turkey was among the emerging markets that suffered the most. This article analyses the making of Turkey's economic crisis in 2018-2019, while...

In countries where tools of economic control are immature and disabled due to totalitarian systems, macroeconomic analyses for aggregate quantities and relationships, such as total consumption, investment, and government expenditures represents a difficult task. The practice of aggregation...

This chapter takes stock of growth trends in Belarusian economy since 1996, reviews the evidence of accumulated challenges and risks within the existing growth patterns, and provides policy recommendations aimed at strengthening growth sustainability. In sum, while economic growth in Belarus in...

Similarly to other post-Communist countries Georgia also embarked transition from a command economy to a market economy. The Georgian experience of reforming its economy should be considered interesting as the country succeeded in overcoming the hyperinflation and the economic downturn was...

An American political scientist and a Russian geographer, specialists in postcommunist political reform and Russian regional politics, respectively, adopt a subnational approach to democratization, measuring democracy in a standard fashion across 57 regions of Russia. They rate levels of...