In the article the changes in the Belarusian standard of living over the past ten years are considered and a decline therein observed in 2011 that was caused by a price surge and foreign exchange market woes is analyzed. The author has produced recommendations on streamlining the income policy...

The paper presents a model of foreign exchange integration in the post-Soviet countries. The author considers the possibility of introducing a supranational unit of account in the most economically integrated countries in the medium term, namely Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.

The economic development requires the establishment not only banking structures but other financial institutions. However,this process will be associated with problems as far as the households nowadays are insufficiently informed about the processes occurred in the economy as a whole and in the...

Considering that construction is one of stimulators of economic growth in the country, it is necessary to understand the basic problems in the field of attraction of investment means in the given sphere. The author examines the role of surety as one of the means of securing housing credits as...

The paper lists reasons for participation of the Republic of Belarus in economic integration in the territory of the Former Soviet Union. The author looks at the prospects of convergence in economic and monetary spheres of the CIS member states.

Considering that construction is one of stimulators of economic growth in the country, it is necessary to understand the basic problems in the field of attraction of investment means in the given sphere. The author examines the role of surety as one of the means of securing housing credits as...

It has been hypothesized that the rising obesity rates in many countries are an unintended consequence of anti-smoking policies. However, evidence of a causal effect of smoking on body weight is mixed. Using a large nationally representative survey from Belarus, we estimate the effect of the...

This paper address the issue of assessing inflation persistence in Belarus using quarterly seasonally adjusted data over 1996–2011. To detect multiple structural breaks during the analyzed period, we applied recently developed and practically implemented in OxMetrics software impulse...

In this paper we explore the issue of the measurement of productivity in the context of higher education. We suggest applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the productivity scores for universities of Belarus. This assessment will help to find out (a) if it possible to construct...