Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name:Radygin Alexandr Author-Name-First: Alexandr Author-Name-Last:Radygin Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name:Malginov Georgiy Author-Name-First: Georgiy Author-Name-Last:Malginov Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: The public sector and privatization policy Abstract: In 2016, statistical data began to be published in the framework of the newly introduced System of Public Property Management Efficiency Estimates. It was approved by Decree of the RF Government of 29 January 2015, No 72 and introduced by way of replacing the public sector monitoring data, collected and released by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) since the late 1990s in accordance with the provisions stipulated in Decree of the RF Government of January 4, 1999, No 1 (as amended as of December 30, 2002). Among other things, the System of Public Property Management Efficiency Estimates contains data on the number of federal state unitary enterprises (FSUEs) and joint-stock companies (JSCs) with RF stakes in their capital, which previously were published as part of government privatization programs (from 2011 – for three-year period, and prior to 2011- for one-year period. Classification-JEL: K11, H82, L32, L33 Keywords: Russian economy, public sector, privatization Creation-Date: 2017 Revision-Date:2017 Length: 38 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2017-287.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2017 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2017-287