Russia's Road to Corruption
Author: United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 209
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anders Aslund
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 030024486X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
Author: William H. Webster
Publisher: CSIS
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780892063727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Serguei Cheloukhine
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781493901890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about through the collaboration of diverse players—such as criminals, state officials, businesspersons, and law enforcement—into organized networks aimed to obtain financial and economic gains.
Author: Clifford G. Gaddy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1134106890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bear Traps examines Russia’s longer term economic growth prospects. It argues that Russia’s growth challenges are conventionally misdiagnosed and examines the reasons why: a spatial misallocation that imposes excess costs on production and investment; distortions to human capital; an excessively high relative price of investment that serves as a tax on physical capital accumulation; and an economic mechanism that inhibits adjustments that would correct the misallocation. Bear Traps explains why Soviet legacies still constrain economic growth and outlines a feasible policy path that could remove these obstacles. The most popular proposals for Russian economic reform today — diversification, innovation, modernization — are misguided. They are based on a faulty diagnosis of the country’s ills, because they ignore a simple reality: Russia’s capital, both physical and human, is systematically overvalued, owing to a failure to account for the handicap imposed by geography and location. Part of the handicap is an unavoidable consequence of Russia’s size and cold climate. But another part is self-inflicted. Soviet policies placed far too much economic activity in cold, remote locations. Specific institutions in today’s Russia, notably its federalist structure, help preserve the Soviet spatial legacy. As a result, capital remains handicapped. Investments made to compensate for the handicaps of cold and distance should properly be treated as costs. Instead, they are considered net additions to capital. When returns to what appear to be large quantities of physical and human capital fail to satisfy expectations, the blame naturally goes to poor institutions, corruption, backward technology, and so on. Policy proceeds along the wrong path, with costly programs that can end up doing more damage than good. The authors insist that the goal should be to seek to remove the handicaps rather than to spend to compensate for them. They discuss how Russia could develop a modernization program that would let the nation finally focus on its economic advantages, not its handicaps.