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    A Bumpy Recovery

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    June, 2010
    Russia, Europe, Central Asia

    Amid heightened global uncertainties, Russia is experiencing a bumpy recovery. Domestic demand is rising, but unemployment remains high, and credit and investment remain limited. The budget has benefited from higher oil prices, but fiscal consolidation remains important in the medium term. Crumbling infrastructure, especially in transport, could hamper the economy's competitiveness and longer-term growth prospects. The debt crisis in Western Europe sharpens the downside risks to global recovery and oil prices.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2009
    Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Eastern Europe, Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper explains why these changes have occurred and why there are large differences among transition countries in the extent and the nature of the remaining distortions.

  3. Library Resource

    Preliminary Outcomes of the 2006 Decentralization Reform

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2011
    Russia, Europe, Central Asia

    The objectives of the study are to: a) increase understanding of the effects and effectiveness of the implementation of the local government reform launched in 2006; and b) assess the impact of a World Bank-supported intervention that aimed to enhance effectiveness of the reforms by increasing local capacity and local participation. In line with these objectives, the study assessed the perceived effects and effectiveness of the implementation of the local government reform in selected provinces.

  4. Library Resource

    A Multi-Level Approach

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2010
    Malaysia, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Eastern Asia, Oceania, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    This report presents the results of extensive work of the smart green infrastructure task force commissioned by the World Bank under the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI). The report benefited from advice, ideas, and information about tigers and tiger-friendly infrastructure development from staff at the World Bank, and from several institutions that promote tiger and biodiversity conservation throughout the world.

  5. Library Resource

    Securing Stability and Growth

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    June, 2011
    Russia, Europe, Central Asia

    Russia has seen even higher oil windfall in the past few months, which translates into likely fiscal surpluses this year and next. The government should not miss the opportunity provided by a large oil windfall to substantially improve its long-term fiscal position, further reduce inflation, and, therefore, ensure a strong basis for durable stability and healthy growth in the future. Rising domestic demand and credit activity are increasingly supporting solid growth.

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Russia

    The overall finding of this report is
    that much agricultural policy is made at the regional level,
    and here the explicit price, and trade policy distortions
    are significantly worse than at the federal level. The
    result is patchwork of inconsistent policies, that has
    fragmented the Russian national market. The most serious
    policy issues at the federal level, are in the legal
    framework, the continued state domination of some markets,

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Russia

    This Financial Sector Assessment (FSA)
    is a summary of some of the findings of the Financial Sector
    Assessment Program (FSAP) report for the Russian Federation,
    which was prepared jointly by the International Monetary
    Fund (IMF) and the Bank in close cooperation with the
    Russian authorities. Given the small size of the financial
    sector, the effects of a potential financial sector distress
    on the macro-economy would be relatively small. However,

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2014
    Romania, Russia, Ukraine

    Against the backdrop of economic
    transition, several countries in Eastern Europe have
    undertaken far-reaching programs to restructure their coal
    sectors, which in the 1990s were in a state of deep crisis.
    One aspect of restructuring has been the closure of
    loss-making mines, which are often located in communities
    where the coal industry is the dominant employer, and the
    significant downsizing of the workforce. Mitigation efforts

  9. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Russia

    Russian economy has been growing at an
    average nominal rate of 6 percent annually for the past
    decade. Among the most important factors contributing to its
    expansion has been the skyrocketing cost of oil and gas. In
    2000, when Vladimir Putin took office, the cost of oil was
    approximately $20 a barrel; at the end of his term, it was
    five times higher. Meanwhile, the competitiveness of Russian
    enterprises has become increasingly fragile because of the

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Russia

    The report has three main chapters
    discussing modernization, diversification and
    competitiveness. The chapters examine problems and barriers
    facing households, private firms and public agencies to
    achieving these objectives, and then identify the
    instruments that can help Russia achieve the necessary
    spatial transformation of its economy. Russia's long
    history as one of Europe's leading nations, and its

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