Entrepreneurial activity and economic growth withinpost-Soviet Russia is studied by using a rich regional data set to obtain astatistical characterization.Russia was considered a good source forevaluating links between entrepreneurial activity and growth because of theunusual variation in...

In the early stages of post-Soviet Russia's economic transition, small-scale entrepreneurial activity appeared to be a strong engine of growth. Moreover, striking regional variations in initial conditions and adopted policy reforms appeared useful in accounting statistically for observed...