The authors show that the government's growing role in innovation activity is becoming a decisive factor in a new type of activities as conditions for establishing an advanced, high-tech, and efficient innovational industrial economy.

The issue of the government's role in developing the defense-industrial complex is very significant in connection with the specifics of the latter, which develops and produces armaments and military equipment. Consequently, government intervention in defense firm activities is to be expected....

The article examines the basic elements of private pension coverage in Russia, trends of private pension funds' development, and proposals to make private pension funds' investment strategies more effective.

The issue of child labor cannot be addressed in isolation. It is symptomatic of a broad failure to establish a system for the development of agriculture in Uzbekistan and of a more diversified economy that could reduce reliance on cotton exports. The cotton industry revolves around using the...

The article outlines the basic directions of government policy that will be needed to revive and sustain the development of agroindustrial production, completely return the Russian peasantry to the land, and restore their faith in the government.

Although ambitious targets were set at the start of independent development of the Baltic states, they were met only partially. The Baltic recession reinforced by the global economic crisis has put an end to their initial development model. Now it is clear that all three Baltic states need new...

The article considers the mechanism and moving forces of the transition to an innovation type of economic growth. The author states that the main condition of such a transition is to overcome the disincentivization of investment that has been historically prevalent in Russia.

The article analyzes problems of assessing and measuring national innovation systems, focusing primarily on the experience of the European Union and the United States.

The article describes "pension transition" strategies, gives a portrait of a working pensioner, and considers the pluses and minuses of working while receiving a pension for an individual and the economy.