The Development Gap Between the CIS and EU

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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is Still Kicking: The Case of Russia

“…More evidence on the corruption and low levels of trust and of social capital is provided by Sinitsina et al (2008). This plus evidence of the increased support for more government regulation and intervention is provided in and Denisova et al (2009) The two latter studies also show evidence of an increase in the level of corruption since 1989 in the transitional economies, particularly Russia (Denisova et al 2009).…”

“…As already mentioned, the paper compares Russia's success in this sphere with that of a group of countries at a similar GDP per capita level, i.e., the 'upper middle-income' countries (UMI) according to the WB classification. 6 Comparisons with other groups of developing countries are also used, although comparisons with other groups of transitional economies are limited, since much of these data have recently been analysed in great detail (EBRD; Sinitsina et al 2008). A consistent finding of this literature is the 'great divide' with respect to the transition performance between the CEB and CIS countries, including Russia.…”

“…At the same time, a number of the reform laggers (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus) have also exhibited quite high growth and GDP recovery records (EBRD 2008;chs. 1-3;Sinitsina et. al.…”

“…The empirical relationship between the quality of institutions-et-governance and economic growth is well covered in the literature (La Porta et al 1999;EBRD 2008;Barro and Sala-i-Martin 2004 The recent extensive study by Sinitsina et al (2008) contains a systematic analysis of the many factors contributing to the above mentioned gap and makes an attempt to quantify it. Using methodologies similar to ours, the paper, on the basis of a long list of indicators, compares performance within the different groups of the transitional economies as well as with the performance of various EU country-groups.…”

“…The main focus of the analysis here is to compare Russia's performance with that of non-former communist countries and to subsequently study the particular character of the communist transition. See Sinitsina et al (2008) for an extensive literature survey on most of the relevant topics discussed here.…”