The BRIICS - Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - are the largest developing countries in their … respective regions. A snapshot of their trade policies shows they have already liberalised trade and foreign direct investment … improvements in human welfare. But external liberalisation has stalled. Creeping protectionism has set in. It has accelerated in …

-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory liberalization to counteract the risks of global protectionism and …

, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. We investigate foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from 1995 to 2010 to … and their effects vary between the Baltic Sea Region countries. Foreign trade with the investing country is also a …

This paper provides an assessment of Russia’s long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of … Russia’s fast economic expansion in recent years has benefited from a number of singular factors such as the unprecedented … rise in oil prices, the paper presents new evidence on Russia’s oil price dependency using a Vector Error Correction Model …

Ukraine” project, co-financed by the 2008 Polish aid programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland … (FSU). The paper focuses on the following issues: aims and motives of monetization reforms in Russia; expected outcomes of … planned Ukrainian monetization reform. The paper is based on extensive research on the monetization reform in Russia and …

establishes theoretical models for different aspects of labor force mobility, discusses the availability of data on Russia and …