An analysis of the consumption of prescription pharmaceuticals and the structure of pharmaceutical care costs has demonstrated that the availability of pharmaceuticals is still low, and that households have to pay for more than half of those costs. It has also been revealed that availability of...

In the following, we analyze the budget execution of the two main (in terms of size and value for the budget system) public off-budget funds: The Pension Fund of Russia (hereinafter – PFR) and The Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund

From the day of issuing of Executive Order No.204 of May 7, 2018 of the President of the Russian Federation “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of the Development of the Russian Federation in the Period till 2024” (hereinafter, the Executive Order No.204) and till the end of 2018,...

In 2014–2016, total fixed investments in real terms in the health care system decreased to 50.4% against their peak seen in 2012. Budget investments reported the highest drop (in 2016 – 43.7% of the maximum). Dynamics of fixed investments at the expense of own funds of the medical...

Every country faces what economists call an intertemporal (across time) budget constraint, which requires that its government’s future expenditures, including the servicing of its outstanding official debt, be covered by its government’s future receipts when measured in present value. The...

В Российской Федерации в очередной раз встает задача формирования системы межбюджетных трансфертов, способствующих появлению устойчивой заинтересованности и...

В работе анализируется адаптация бюджетной политики в Российской Федерации к условиям кризиса в 2008-2009 гг. Анализ основных параметров и направлений...

Debates on drafts of the currently designed Conception for The Long-Term Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Federation (below referred to as the Conception) engender a number of questions concerning the problem of a balanced budgetary policy. To examine budgetary implications of...

This paper deals with the issues of the Russia's federal budget in 2008. The authors focused on the general characteristics of the RF budget system, execution of the federal budget in 2008, analysis of collection of main taxes, expenditures, and assesment of budget parameters without regard to...

This paper deals with interbudgetary relations and subnational finances in the Russian Federation. The authors focus on major trends in relations between budgets of different levels, measures taken by the federal government to mitigate the crisis impact on the regions