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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy?: The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...

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Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...

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Understanding Russian Regions' Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth: An Extreme-bound Analysis Approach

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...

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Steel in the new millennium : nine case studies

Jennings, Norman S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1997

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Stimulating Innovation in Russia: The Role of Institutions and Policies

Gianella, Christian; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It … respect to intellectual property rights and competition. Realising Russia’s innovation potential will also require reform of … the large public science sector. This raises issues pertaining to the organisation and financing of public research bodies …

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Russia: Progress in Structural Reform and Framework Conditions

Vaziakova, Yana; Barnard, Geoff; Lysenko, Tatiana - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation,...

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