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Monetary Policy in Belarus since the Currency Crisis 2011
In the second half of 2010, the National Bank of Belarus carried out a soft monetary policy to stimulate domestic demand…
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Inter-Regional Convergence in Russia
There was no inter-regional convergence in Russia during the 1990s but the situation changed dramatically after 2000. Wh…
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Putin and the Modernization of Russia – a Chimera?
Vladimir Putin is once more the Russian President and a new government has been formed consisting of most of the same fa…
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Assessing Inflation Persistence in Belarus
Author: Igor Pelipas, BEROC. Generally speaking, inflation persistence can be defined as the speed at which inflation re…
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The Effect of Municipal Strategic Planning on Urban Growth in Ukraine
Authors: Denys Nizalov and Olena Nizalova, KEI. In a downturn, the pressure is especially high on governments to produce…
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Inflation Expectations and Probable Trap for Macro Stabilization
As of today, a majority of the negative consequences of the deep Belarusian currency crisis of 2011 seem to have been re…
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The Distributional Impact of Austerity Measures in Latvia
For a country of its size, Latvia was mentioned in the last decade’s macroeconomic discourse remarkably often: first, fo…
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Russia and the WTO
Eighteen years after the start of the accession process, Russia is closer than ever to joining the World Trade Organizat…
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Five Million Tourists in Georgia by 2015 – a Myth or a Nightmarish Reality?
Anybody traveling on the Georgian countryside will be astonished by the pace of development. Mestia, the capital of Svan…
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