This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region … Trade Organization accession along with environmental emissions data in Russia for seven pollutants that are tracked for all … Organization accession allows Russia to import better technologies and reduce pollution from the “technique effect,” on balance …

In this paper we develop a computable general equilibrium model of the regions of Russia to assess the impact of … accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate that the average gain in welfare as a …

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

In this paper, the authors develop a 10-region comparative static computable general-equilibrium model of Russia to … assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on the regions of Russia. The model allows for foreign direct …