The Gaidar Forum-2019: An Expert Discussion – “Privatization in Russia: 30 Years On: The Scale and Efficiency of the Public Sector
On January 16, within the framework of the Gaidar Forum – 2019 Alexander Radygin, Head of the Center for Institutional Development, Property and Corporate Governance, the Gaidar Institute and the Institute for Applied Economic Studies, the RANEPA delivered a key report at the expert discussion: “The Scale and Efficiency of the Public Sector”.
The participants in the debates were asked to discuss the following issues:
• Sustainable growth of the public sector in 2000–2017: uncertainty of experts’ opinion, surveys, prerequisites and costs of the economic policy.• Are state-owned companies inferior as regards efficiency to their sectorial peers in Russia and abroad?
• Is there any dualism in the state policy: state capitalism de facto and the strategy of denationalization de jure?
• The goals and parameters of the Russian privatization for 30 years: political, social, fiscal and economic aspects. What is next?• Sanctions and privatization: consolidation of state capitalism or a new “window of opportunities” for speeded denationalization? Does it make sense to carry out privatization amid sanctions?
Participants in the debates were as follows: Dmitri Pristanskov, Member of the Board of Directors of the Sheremetyevo International Airport, Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management (2016–2018); Yuri Simachev, Director for Economic Policy, NRU HSE; Evsey Gurvich, Head of the Economic Expert Group, Head of the Center for Budget Analysis and Forecasting of the Financial Research Institute (FRI) of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; Revold Entov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Gaidar Institute; Alexei Pavlov, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management; Roman Bogdanov, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management; Ivan Aksenov, Deputy General Director of FGUP Pochta Rossii; Pyotr Lanskov, President of the Professional Association of Registrars, Transfer-Agents and Depositaries, a self-regulating organization; Oleg Vyugin, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange; Boris Rubtsov, Deputy Director of the Department of Financial Markets and Banks of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation; Oleg Buklemishev, Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies of the Department of Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
A video recording of the meeting