1st Edition

The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

By Ararat L. Osipian Copyright 2023
176 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s, linked directly to the exhausting and ill-planned transition from the planned economy to the market economy, resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how Russia manages to... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: post-Soviet transition and poverty trap in Russia

Chapter 2. Modern economic growth theories: Ramsey to Solow

Chapter 3. Economic growth with foreign aid: structuralism and poverty trap

Chapter 4. Economic growth in the post-Soviet Russia: capital and labor

Chapter 5. The structure of GDP growth in Russia: empirical observations

Chapter 6. Economic growth and labor in Russia: internal determinants

Chapter 7. Economic growth and capital in Russia: external determinants

Chapter 8. Exports and imports in Russia: foreign trade

Chapter 9. IMF and foreign debt in Russia: foreign aid

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Poverty trap, economic growth and structuralism

Biography

Ararat L. Osipian is a Fellow of the Elliott School of International Affairs Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA