Politico-Economic Problems of the Russian Regions

Publication date
Monday, 04.06.2001

Authors
K. Janovsky, S. Zhavoronkov, O. Kochetkova, A. Mazhuga, D. Cherny, P. Dejardin, P. Hobson, D. Savoy

Series
CEPRA

Annotation
The key aim of the project “Political and Economic Problems of the Russia’s Regions” was to study the impact of regional business specifics (policy pursued by regional authorities, local governments, regional policies of the federal authori-ties, regional specifics of political and legal culture and institutes on the dynamics of economic development of the regions, as well as determine key factors behind the direction and pace of the economic development of regions; and also to focus on the impact of political and legal factors on economic development, identifying data that will allow the building of a methodology for a more strict evaluation of regional components of investment risks than the ones currently available.

Contents

Introduction
Some comments on the research methodology
Model description
A hypothesis
The difference of the proposed method of research from the known analogous methods
Independent variables
Explainable variables
Statistical analysis and original conclusions
Rotated Component Matrix
Approaches to rating development 
Supplement 3. Tenders
Supplement 4. Conflicts within Regional Authorities
Supplement 5. Methodological Guidelines – Instructions on Trips to Regions
Preparation of Trips
Purchase of Information
Interviews
Duration of operating the business. The share of expenditure for the traffic police (GIBDD) and other regulating authorities, including illegal structures in the total costs (including purchase of fuel, spare parts, repairs, savings for a new vehicle)
Observations
Trade
Supplement 6 Report on Perm and Tumen Regions
Ownership Rights and the Process of Ownership Rights Redistribution
Other Variants of Transfers of Ownership
Land Transactions
Legal Protection
Survey of Some Categories of Civil Cases
Guarantees of Individual Rights and Liberties
Regional Perm – Tumen report’s conclusions 

Notes

ISBN 5-93255-035-Х

The research and the publication were undertaken in the framework of CEPRA (Consortium for Economic Policy, Research and Advice) project funded by the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA).

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