The paper presents description of political context of regulatory reforms of early 2000-ties. The reforms described were finished before the oil prices hike made the business climate issue obsolete during 2nd Presidential term of President Putin. The key factors for the regulatory reforms...

In this paper we tested the hypothesis of the "political" basis for the "economic" rights. We constructed our own variables of political regimes' classification for years 1820-2000. We found significant positive interdependencies between the Democracy's indicators and Economic Growth. Protection...

The paper consists of reference materials on Family crisis. The problem (literature review) focused on number of the version explaining fall in fertility (birthrate) in the industrialized countries. Possibility to propose governmental policies efficiently encouraging giving birth among middle...

If the authorities have the opportunity to receive incomes uncontrolled by society, this gives them great freedom of action. Such incomes do not depend on the quality of the public goods delivered, nor on the investment climate. Given a certain minimal level of organization, taxpayers can try to...

The present coronavirus crisis caused major worldwide disruption which has not been experienced for decades. The lockdown-based crisis management was implemented by nearly all the countries, and studies confirming lockdown effectiveness can be found alongside with the studies questioning it. In...

Why researchers, funded on the decision of government officials and promoting advice to entrust the Government more power and to give the Government more funds, never report conflict of interest? Materials collected and presented below provide some explanations for this phenomenon (‘They never...

As every crisis, current COVID19 pandemic caused economic setback, brings not only heavy losses for all the countries, but opportunity to succeed also. The opportunity and success not require heavy governmental spending but termination of various practices harming both business climate and...

The presented short paper contains follow-ups for the “COVID-19 Library. Filling the Gaps”. The library itself consists of numerous structured references to articles, papers, data, and books relevant to the current discussions regarding the COVID-19 crisis. The principal purposes of this...

Russian Abstract: Противники судебной реформы высказывают опасения крушения системы сдержек и противовесов как следствия ее осуществления.Здесь рассмотрены механизмы...

The threat of the use of nuclear weapons by the aggressor is a significant factor in the ongoing war. Also in future, the Ukrainian government (any leadership) will be interested in its own nuclear weapons at least as long as Russia is ruled by an ill-predictable authoritarian regime. Nuclear...