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Golden Sanction to Halt Putin in Ukraine Stays Elusive

(Bloomberg) As Russian-backed separatists advance in southeastern Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union are still searching for a sanction that can force Vladimir Putin to stop and think again. More…

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On Russian vs. Soviet Performance

(Global Brief) How is the Russian man doing in 2013, nearly a century after the Russian Revolution and just over two decades after the fall of the USSR? Moscow, Europe’s…

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New Policy Memo: Currency Wars: Why Russia and China are Rapidly Accumulating Foreign Exchange Reserves

The specter of currency wars is again haunting policymakers. An outburst of competitive devaluations of national currencies happened on a major scale during the Great Depression. In recent decades, there…

Currency Wars: Why Russia and China are Rapidly Accumulating Foreign Exchange Reserves

The specter of currency wars is again haunting policymakers.[1] An outburst of competitive devaluations of national currencies happened on a major scale during the Great Depression. In recent decades, there…

Провокационные мысли

В какой стране чего не хватает? Грамотный экономист должен на этот вопрос ответить, проведя диагностику роста. Скажем, в Африке не хватает сильных институтов, хотя там все либерализовали и фондовые биржи…

Is the Russian Economy Likely to Become a New “Asian Tiger?”

(ISPI Article) When nearly 13 years ago, in 2000, Putin became president for the first time, I wrote a policy memo entitled Why The Russian Economy Is Unlikely to Become…

Russia’s Mortality Crisis: Will We Ever Learn?

We do not hear about it often, but the phenomenon is truly unprecedented: the transition to a market economy and democracy in the 1990s in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet Eurasia…

Developing New Measurements of State Institutional Capacity

Most would agree that state institutional capacity is the ability of the state to provide goods and services that the state is responsible for, although many would disagree on what…

A Curse or a Blessing?: What to Expect from a Typical Developing Resource-Abundant State

It might seem obvious that a country endowed with larger quantities of natural resources has an advantage and, other conditions being similar, will grow faster than resource-poor countries. This is…

The Exchange Rate in a Resource-Based Economy: The Case of Russia

In 2005, Russia exported about 150 million tons of oil and 150 billion cubic meters of gas worth about $100 billion (all numbers are rounded for simplicity). The price of…

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