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Author: William Russell Easterly
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Russell Easterly
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mauro L. Baranzini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1107079098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New approach to the economic theory of resources, showing the positive role that scarcities can play in triggering economic growth.
Author: Branko Milanovi?
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780821339947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World Bank Technical Paper No. 394. Joint Forest Management (JFM) has emerged as an important intervention in the management of Indias forest resources. This report sets out an analytical method for examining the costs and benefits of JFM arrangements. Two pilot case studies in which the method was used demonstrate interesting outcomes regarding incentives for various groups to participate. The main objective of this study is to develop a better understanding of the incentives for communities to participate in JFM.
Author: Pradeep Mitra
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780821350386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wide variation in transition economies raises questions about differences in economic growth, the applicability of transition policies, and the advantages of economic reform. This report seeks to answer these questions.
Author: Grigory Yavlinsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0231548826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia—how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule—remains opaque and often misunderstood. In The Putin System, Russian economist and opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky explains his country’s politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear. Combining the firsthand experience of a practicing politician with academic expertise, Yavlinsky gives unparalleled insights into the sources of Putin’s power and what might be next. He argues that Russia’s dysfunction is neither the outcome of one man’s iron-fisted rule nor a deviation from the supposedly natural development of Western-style political institutions. Instead, Russia’s peripheral position in the global economy has fundamentally shaped the regime’s domestic and foreign policy, nourishing authoritarianism while undermining its opponents. The quasi-market reforms of the 1990s, the bureaucracy’s self-perpetuating grip on power, and the Russian elite’s frustration with its secondary status have all combined to enable personalized authoritarian rule and corruption. Ultimately, Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator. In a time of sensationalism and fear, The Putin System is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how power is wielded in Russia.
Author: Robert William Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521457705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.
Author: Andrei Shleifer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674015821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a firsthand glimpse into the intellectual challenges that Russia's turbulent transition generated. It deals with many of the most important reforms, from Gorbachev's half-hearted "perestroika," to the mass privatization program, to the efforts to build legal and regulatory institutions of a market economy.
Author: Robert Service
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.