Russia's Output Collapse and Recovery: Evidence from the Post-Soviet Transition

April 1, 2010

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Eteri Kvintradze. Russia's Output Collapse and Recovery: Evidence from the Post-Soviet Transition, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

The health of the Russian economy still depends heavily on natural resource revenues. The history of the economic collapse and recovery in 1970–2004 provides new evidence on the sources of Russian economic growth, while a survey of the economic literature suggests that the Russian economy could be viewed as a weighted combination of virtual and normal forces. If the Russian economy is considered to be dominated by normal market economy forces, higher energy export receipts provide an opportunity for structural reforms while compensating for social costs, making the economy less vulnerable to decline in world energy prices. However, the domination of virtual forces—value transfers from the energy sector to strategic enterprises—suggests that high world energy prices are masking an inefficient manufacturing sector, and that the Russian economy is highly vulnerable to energy price declines.

Subject: Economic sectors, Energy pricing, Expenditure, Industrial sector, Production, Production growth, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Eastern Europe, Economic system, Economy, Economy concept, Energy pricing, Enterprise, Enterprise balance sheets, Enterprise growth, Industrial sector, Price, Privatized enterprise, Production factor, Production growth, Productivity, Russia, Russia and Growth Transition, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

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28
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Working Paper No. 2010/089
Stock No:

WPIEA2010089
ISBN:

9781451982596
ISSN:

1018-5941

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