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The service sector in lower-income Asian economies

As services tend to be more labor intensive, they can foster inclusive growth by serving as an engine for creating jobs
Estrada, G.; Acharya, Y.; Batten, A.; Brimble, P.; Doung, P.; Gulamov, M.; Hossain, M.; Mellor, D.; Park, D. and Rahman, S.
2013
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

China’s Central Asia problem

Can China further foster and simultaneously protect its interests in Central Asia?

2013
International Crisis Group

Georgia’s bumpy transition: How the EU can help

Can the EU help Georgia shift its focus from politics to policies to address its economic problems?
Kobzova, J.
2013
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Bulgaria

Why do Russian firms use fixed-term and agency work contracts?

Effects of the increase of segmentation and the expansion of an unstable employment segment in internal markets of enterprises with non-standard labour contracts in Russia
Smirnykh, L. and Wörgötter, A.
2013
Higher School of Economics, (HSE), Russia

Natural-resource or market-seeking FDI in Russia?

An empirical study of locational factors affecting the regional distribution of FDI entries
Gonchar, K. and Marek, P.
2013
Higher School of Economics, (HSE), Russia

Evolution of Russia’s budgetary policy in the 2000s: In search of financial stability for the national budget system

Important factors affecting the rationalization of budget expenditure and improvements in the efficiency of the budgeting process as a whole
Drobyshevsky, S.; Sinelnikov-Murylev, S. and Sokolov, I.
2013
Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Quality of the administration of value-added tax in OECD countries and Russia

Any steps for tax reform should be thoroughly analyzed from the point of view of the potential benefits and costs
Knobel, A.; Sinelnikov-Muryliov, S. and Sokolov, I.
2013
Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Endogenous structure of cities: Trade, commuting, communication

Changes in city structure is mainly an instrument of inner policy, while change in trade openness may results outwards
Sidorov, A.
2013
Economic Education and Research Consortium, (EERC), Russian Federation

Optimal economic policy and oil prices shocks in Russia

Explaining whether Central Bank of Russia should include commodity prices into the lists of variables
Semko, R.
2013
Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Ukraine

How reliable and consistent are subjective measures of welfare in Europe and Central Asia?

The relationship between important determinants of life satisfaction and reported life satisfaction at the individual level is robust to alternative formulations and scales of the life satisfaction question
Cojocaru, A. and Diagne, M.
2013
World Bank