At the beginning of the 1990s, the topic of Russian reform briefly flirted with the challenge of providing an adequate social safety net to cushion the impact of unavoidably painful economic reforms. But that discussion subsided quickly, as adherents of macroeconomic reform succeeded in defining...

Assessments of Russia's future have become something of a cottage industry in recent years. The confluence of a new millennium with the failure of market-oriented reform to move in its anticipated direction have raised legitimate questions as to what we can reasonably expect of this society in...

The present issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i returns to sampling some of the rich literature published on the broad topic of socioeconomic issues. Simon Clarke's examination of poverty in Russia explores a topic that the World Bank has still been unable to properly appreciate or...

If there is a single theme that runs through the contributions to the current issue of iProblems of Economic Transition (PET),/i it is that the Russian state will come to play a greater role in the management of the economy than has been the case in the preceding decade of reform. All of the...