We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in … Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results … point to the continued existence of economic links between the CIS countries and Russia, though these links may have altered …

With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper … applies the gravity model to gauge whether this ""outsider"" status has been affecting Russia''s export structure. On the … the model''s predictions. The paper discusses possible explanations of this result, including Russia''s exclusion from …

Russia, the Baltic states and the other countries of the former Soviet Union inherited health and education systems …

Although various factors point to a more arduous and longer transition in Russia than in Eastern Europe, the broad … Russia needs external financial assistance, it must be willing and able to pursue economic policies that ensure that the …

This paper discusses Russia’s balance of payments developments in recent years: the initial macroeconomic imbalances … and systemic shocks which set the stage for the critical balance of payments difficulties Russia faced in the early 1990s …; the lessons from the early phases of Russia’s economic reforms; the choices faced by the Russian Government and the …