The New Political Economy of Russia

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Author(s): Erik Berglöf, Andrei Kunov, Julia Shvets, Ksenia Yudaeva
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 181
City: Cambriidge, Mass

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 Accounting for Growth......Page 22
2.1 The Productivity Challenge......Page 30
2.2 The Investment Challenge......Page 42
2.3 The 2001 Survey on Reform Priorities......Page 51
3 The Political Context of Economic Reform......Page 56
3.1 Government Accountability during the Yeltsin Presidency......Page 58
3.2 Government Accountability during the Putin Presidency......Page 69
4 Structural and Institutional Reforms......Page 80
4.1 Incentives and Failure of the Post-Soviet Judicial System......Page 82
4.2 Regulation and Rent-Seeking Bureaucracy......Page 110
4.3 Banking-Sector Failure and Reform......Page 119
4.4 Social-Sector Reforms......Page 134
5 International Accountability: The Prospect of Accession to the World Trade Organization......Page 148
5.1 Costs and Benefits of WTO Accession......Page 149
5.2 Russian Accession Strategy and WTO Accession as an External Anchor......Page 154
5.3 Accompanying Policies......Page 155
6 Conclusions......Page 158
Notes......Page 164
References......Page 168
B......Page 176
E......Page 177
I......Page 178
P......Page 179
W......Page 180
Y......Page 181