This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II) for assessing the strictness of national labor laws...

Emerging market economies were major beneficiaries of the economic boom before 2007. More recently, they have become victims of the lobal financial crisis. Their future development depends, to a large extent, on global economic prospects. Today the global economy and the European economy are...

This study surveys nation-building efforts in post-Soviet Russia, and shows how all five main nation-building projects reflecting the dominant ways of imagining the “true” Russian nation have been fraught with contradictions and therefore could not easily guide state policies. At the same...

This article presents the results of a in-depth study of opposition leaders in five Soviet successor states that have followed markedly different economic paths: market-rejecting Belarus and Turkmenistan, market-reforming Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, a reluctant reformer that falls...

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of fiscal policies and PFM reforms in 7 countries in the Western Balkans and 12 countries in the CIS, including major macroeconomic and poverty trends, fiscal policy, the size and role of the public sector, public expenditure management and its...