Reform Strategies and Economic Performance of Russia's Regions

Popov, Vladimir

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00006-7

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“…Despite the recent recentralisation, its geographical diversity is still matched by institutional, economic and social diversity. It is for this reason that some of the theoretical tools developed to understand cross-country variation may be applied, as we have done, to analyse variation on the regional level in Russia (Popov 2001). We focus on hydrocarbons endowment and argue that the regularities observed on the cross-country level apply to Russian regions as well.…”

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Oil and Gas: A Blessing for the Few. Hydrocarbons and Inequality within Regions in Russia

Buccellato

Mickiewicz

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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Building on earlier work on regional inequality in Russia the article seeks to demonstrate that the regional oil and gas abundance is associated with high within-region inequality. It provides empirical evidence that hydrocarbons represent one of the leading determinants of an increased gap between rich and poor in the producing regions. The discussion focuses on a possible cluster of geographic, economic and political factors underlying the phenomenon. In this article, we investigate the hypothesis that growth led by natural resources could be associated not only with the widening in differences of living standards across Russian regions but also within regions. In particular, we demonstrate that regions rich in oil are characterised by a higher level of income inequality. We also discuss possible geographic, economic and political explanations for this phenomenon. We argue that some theoretical intuitions drawn from cross-country comparisons may also apply to the cross-regional comparisons, given the geographical, economic and social diversity and the federal character of Russia.

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Oil and Gas: A Blessing for the Few. Hydrocarbons and Inequality within Regions in Russia

Buccellato

Mickiewicz

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…In selecting our independent variables, we referred to Popov (2001), Piliasov (2003, Solanko (2003), Benini and Czyzewski (2007), Brock (2009), Bajo-Rubio et al (2010, Kirillova and Kantor (2011), Ledyaeva et al (2012), and Kuzmina et al (2014), in addition to the previous studies listed in Table 4.…”

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Foreign direct investment and regional economic development in Russia: an econometric assessment

Iwasaki

Suganuma

2015

Econ Change Restruct

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Abstract:In this paper, we estimate the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) in Russian regions, paying special attention to the country's investment boom and the remarkable regional gaps in terms of cumulative direct investments in and after 2003. We also examine possible synergistic effects between FDI and local R&D potential to test the absorptive capacity hypothesis. Our estimation results strongly suggest the remarkable role of FDI in the regional economic development in Russia. In addition, we found that the positive effect of FDI on TFP may increase in the regions that received larger amounts of foreign capital.Furthermore, we detected a surprisingly robust and positive synergistic effect between FDI and local R&D potential, indicating that the absorptive capability is essential for linking FDI and regional economic development in Russia. JEL classification numbers: F21, O11, P25, P33, R11

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“…(2012). The experience of the Russian Federation is analysed by Popov, V. (2001), Desai, R. M., Freinkman, L., Goldberg, I. (2005), Blanchard, O., Shleifer, A.…”

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Horizontal Imbalances of Russian Federation Budget System

Sabitova¹,

Shavaleyeva²,

Nikonova³

2015

ASS

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The Russian Federation constituents differ not only in size and population but also in economic potential and, as a consequence, in the financial abilities to apply their budget authorities. The result is that the RF budget system features imbalances that are regulated at the federal level through equalisation transfer. This is associated with such principles of the RF budget system as unity and equality of budget laws. This paper describes the case study of horizontal imbalance of the RF budget system being a result of economic disparity of the regions: the fiscal equalisation mechanism is described and appraised for its efficiency.

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Reform Strategies and Economic Performance of Russia's Regions

Cited by 71 publications

References 13 publications

Oil and Gas: A Blessing for the Few. Hydrocarbons and Inequality within Regions in Russia

Oil and Gas: A Blessing for the Few. Hydrocarbons and Inequality within Regions in Russia

Foreign direct investment and regional economic development in Russia: an econometric assessment

Horizontal Imbalances of Russian Federation Budget System

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