the performance of a country: in the first years the transition progress may affect growth in a positive way, but later it … becomes insignificant. This can explain some growth peculiarities previously remarked when transition countries were analysed … by means of long-run growth models. Using Barro and Levine-Renelt models the authors show that despite somewhat better …

policy support to regain its growth dynamic. To regain an inclusive and sustainable growth dynamic, structural policies of …

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth … in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian … regions, it examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998 and for the period of strong growth …