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Directed Lending: Is It An Efficient Tool to Modernize the Economy?
Over the last couple of years, the growth rate of potential Belarus’ GDP declined. The government intends to revive econ…
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Adapting to Capitalism
Author: Jenny Simon, SITE When transitioning to a free-market economy, do people adapt to the new circumstances immediat…
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Accountability in Russia
This policy brief summarizes two recent research papers that are related to obstacles to political accountability in mod…
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Latvian Unemployment is Cyclical
In terms of output decline and increase in unemployment, the economic recession in Latvia that started during the 2008-0…
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Becoming Entrepreneur in Belarus: Factors of Choice
This policy brief summarizes two papers by Maryia Akulava on entrepreneurship development in Belarus and outlines which…
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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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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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Property Rights and Internal Migration
Authors: Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich, CEFIR. Russia currently faces an important policy challenge related…
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