This paper investigates the process of GDP generation in former Soviet Union (FSU) economies to provide an understanding of the impact of technology channels on countries' efficiency. We apply a stochastic frontier approach to 15 FSU economies over the period 1995–2008 and find that FDI and...

Many countries among the Baltics, Russia and other CIS states are increasingly borrowing on international capital markets, a development that generally reflects their success in achieving financial stabilization. In view of the low level of domestic saving and large capital requirements,...

Migration: economic change, social challenge / Christian Dustmann -- Economic change. The immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel: evidence and interpretation / Sarit Cohen Goldner, Zvi Eckstein, and Yoram Weiss ; The role of rural migrants in the Chinese urban economy / Paul...

The post-Soviet space, consisting of the countries of the former USSR and the Warsaw Pact, is a good testing ground for the dynamics of growth. Motivated by the mixed evidence on economic convergence in the region, this paper explores why countries have performed differently, focusing on...

In the 1990s, the CIS region experienced a painful transformation following the collapse of the USSR and the command economy. For the less developed republics of the former USSR, this process was even more dramatic as they lost subsidies from the Union's budget and some of them suffered...