| Newsletter: "Commonwealth of Independent States: Economic Growth Sans Frontieres" |
| 2001 (8) |
EERC |
| DIALOG. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF TRANSITION |
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| Russian economists, come home! |
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Ericson Richard
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| In 2000, EERC partnered with leading higher education institutions and policy think tanks in Russia to bring back home a number of Russian Ph.D. Economists |
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| Ivan Abramov |
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Abramov Ivan
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| Ivan Abramov is a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Since 1983, he has been conducting intensive studies on the dynamics of the Soviet economy and then the Belarusian economy. His doctoral thesis explored the nature and causes of medium-term cyclic fluctuations in the development of the Soviet economy from 1951–1990 and he wrote a monograph on the subject, which won him an N.D. Kondratiev medal. In recent years, Dr. Abramov has been studying industrial policies in transition economies and he recently published a monograph, “Economic Disaster-Crises.” |
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| Vladimir Dubrovsky |
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Dubrovskyy Volodymyr
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| Vladimir Dubrovsky was educated as a physicist. He became an economics expert when taking his first steps in business: he has been a manager of a private business firm, a private consultant, a business software developer, and an economic analyst, writing reviews for a Kyiv-based daily. At present, Dubrovsky is a self-employed economist associated with CASE-Ukraine. His research interests are expressed in the title of the research project that he was involved in as part of the Harvard Ukraine Project: “Microeconomic Foundations for Macroeconomic Policies”. In cooperation with Janusz Szyrmer, Dubrovsky is developing new quantitative approaches to studying economic microstructure based on standard enterprise statistics. |
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| Farrukh Suvankulov |
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Suvankulov Farrukh
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| Farrukh Suvankulov holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1994) and a Master’s degree from Yale University (New Haven, USA, 2000), where he specialized in development economics and international economics. His main area of interest concerns questions of economic growth in transition economies. Farrukh Suvankulov works as a leading economist in the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan, principally in the area of fiscal forecasting. |
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| Rafkat Hasanov |
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Hasanov Rafkat
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| Rafkat Hasanov is a graduate of Novosibirsk State University, where he majored in economic cybernetics. In Soviet times, Dr. Hasanov worked at the Institute of Economics of the State Planning Committee of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. After Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed independent, he worked in the republic’s government bodies for nine years, serving as a Deputy Minister of Finance and the Head of the Economic Policy Division at the Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan, later returning to applied economic research. His scholarly interests include fiscal sector reform, tax legislation, macroeconomic modeling, and revenue forecasting. |
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| PROJECT REVIEW |
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| Timber rent in Russia |
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Eismont Oleg
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| The article summarizes the results of a research project the author carried out with Anatoly Petrov (National Institute for the Continuing Education of Managers and Specialists in Forestry, Pushkino), Alexei Logvin (New Economic School, Moscow), and Benoit Bosquet (The World Bank, Moscow) |
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| More punishment, no less crime |
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Andrienko Yury
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| Crime became an issue for Russian state authorities at the end of the 20th century, with a dramatic growth in crime during Gorbachev’s time. During the reform period, Russia has experienced a twofold rise in the official crime rate, although, in fact, law enforcement agencies, in order to improve the crime detection rate, tend to record only serious crime, like homicide, rape, and robbery, while refusing to record property crime and petty offenses. Crime has worsened even though hellish prison conditions might be expected to deter criminal acts. |
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| PROGRAM NEWS |
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| It is never too late to learn |
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Zhelobodko Evgeniy
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| Though I have been doing independent research for quite a while, it was only in the last year that I felt I was mature enough to enter an EERC research competition with a project on inflation, output, and economic growth. My project passed the requisite stages of approval, culminating in an invitation to the research workshop in Moscow. The next stage was a rejection, which I tried to take lightly, especially given the sugar-coating — I was offered practical training at the New Economic School (NES). I had certainly had some idea about NES but it still took me by surprise when I experienced the real thing. |
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| PROFILES |
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| Between math and economics |
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Ingster Anna
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| Someone asks you to tell about yourself and the old high school reflexes buoy up from underneath. Unexpectedly, this time the school essay is harder! Why? Perhaps because of the summary part you did not have to deal with at 14. Been there, done that. Haven’t been over there, haven’t done some other
that. As I am trying to sort out places and things, I suddenly feel like an
apprentice, an apprentice economist. |
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| RESEARCH PROGRAM |
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| New research projects — winners of the Fall-2000 grant competition |
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Agapov Stanislav,
Boyarchenko Svetlana,
Ingster Anna,
Khaleeva Julia,
Kiruta Alexander,
Kislitsyna Olga,
Levendorsky Sergey,
Matveenko Vladimir,
Saveliev Peter,
Sheviakov Alexey,
Trofimov Georgy
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| New research projects, the winners of the Fall-2000 competition round, are presented in this section. The Spring-2001 competition is about to be concluded this July. Guidelines for applications are available upon request or may be downloaded from our web site http://www.eerc.ru |
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