Russia’s Economic Reform and its Social Implications

Starting year: 1994

Finising year: 1994

Aim of research:

To review Russia’s economic reform and study its key 1992-93 measures from the point of view of their social consequences.
    
Methods and substance of research:

The paper addresses a broad spectre of issues ranging from those of inflation and unemployment to the problem of poverty in Russia.
    
Results of research:

The main conclusion of the paper is that social policy failures form the reverse side of the government’s wide-scale support for economically hopeless, loss-generating sectors, which in its turn is the result of effective lobbying of the the latter’s interests in legislative and executive power bodies. The authors maintain that if this situation is to be resolved, a cardinal change of the government’s economic policy is necessary. 
 
 

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