A small but rapidly growing body of scholars of contemporary economic development in both Eastern-Central Europe and beyond have begun to question the narrative of impending capitalist hegemony. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this emergent stream of thought by firstly developing a...

To help countries make progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 8.3.1 ("Proportion of informal employment in non-agriculture employment, by sex"), this paper presents an integrated strategic policy approach. This is where: a national government facilitates the...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russian and Ukrainian households have experienced periods of economic marginalization. The role of this paper is to examine these social costs of transition, noting that official reporting underestimates the true scale of the problem, and the...