Abstract Pakistan’s recent economic acceleration together with rapid rates of population growth is having a significant impact on the country’s energy supply/demand balances. Energy supplies…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract The objective of this article is to develop a model of the regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia based on panel…
Abstract A prominent British economist reviews the recent growth, partner-country composition, and sector composition of foreign direct investment in and out of Russia from a…
Abstract Both critics and defenders of Putin can find persuasive evidence in support of their position. Putin’s economic record certainly looks good compared to the…
Summary Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and…
Abstract This paper explores the role of energy resources in Russia. We offer a more inclusive definition of oil and gas rents than is traditionally…
Abstract A prominent specialist on the Russian economy discusses two preceding papers entitled “Resource Rents and the Russian Economy” by Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes…
Abstract A noted European economist argues that the Russian economy and its post-2000 growth have been heavily dependent on natural resources, especially hydrocarbons, and are…
Abstract Despite the impressive economic growth in Russia between 1999 and 2007 there is a fear that Russia may suffer the Dutch disease, which predicts…
Abstract A senior Japanese authority on the Russian economy and its energy sector addresses the country’s exposure to the so-called Dutch disease, suggesting that Russia…
Abstract While the timing and extent of the global financial crisis surprised many countries, Russia was generally prepared. Its macroeconomic management of the recession rightly…
Summary The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world’s preeminent research institutions–the Peterson Institute for International Economics…
Abstract Two prominent American specialists on the Russian economy present a fundamental analysis of basic economic factors explaining how the global financial crisis has played…
Summary Clifford Gaddy’s and Barry Ickes’ paradigm of the “virtual economy” has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia’s economy. Circulated at the highest…
Abstract The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an…
