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 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...

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

This paper deals with interbudgetary relations and subnational finances in the Russian Federation. The authors focus on the issue of subnational budgets during the financial crisis of 2008. They analyze financial aid from the federal budget to regional authorities

It is frequently argued that in a period of economic crisis the correct course of action is to implement an “anti-cyclical” fiscal policy that entails lowering the tax burden and increasing state expenditure. In Russia, the instruments of anti-cyclical budgetary policy are progressive rates...

Over several recent months, the key issue in the discussion on the Strategy of Long-Term Development of the Pension System of the Russian Federation prepared by the RF Ministry of Labor was reform of the funded component of pension. The critics of the mandatory funded component in Russia usually...