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Russia: Bank Assistance for Private Sector and Financial Sector Developments
This paper assesses the World Bank's success in promoting private sector development and financial sector reform in Russia from 1991 to 2000. The Bank's most significant contribution during the period was to prepare…
Russia: Thoughts on the Privatization Debates A Decade Later
In summary, the Russians (and the EBRD) experimented with the lease buyouts as a more home-grown option but the Russian reformers, with the full support of their Bank and other western advisors, stopped the experiments…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Public Sector Management and Governance
The Bank's assistance strategy to the Russian Federation has placed increasingly more emphasis on reforms in the area of public sector management since 1997. The 1997 CAS pointed to problems inhibiting the development…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Social Protection (Marina Kolosnitsyna and Irena Topinska)
Despite some deficiencies, World Bank ESW studies proved useful in formulating objectives of social policy reforms in Russia. But what is as important is the cooperation of the World Bank with local policy makers,…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Social Protection (Lawrence Thompson)
Lessons to be learned from the Bank's experience in Russia in the 1990s include the need to: (a) pay more attention to the political and institutional aspects of the reform process; (b) have reasonable expectations…
Russia: Bank Assistance for the Energy Sector (Youri Bobylev and Jacek Cukrowski) (Russian)
The results of the Bank's operations in different sub-sectors have been mixed. In the coal sub-sector, the Bank's projects have been effective in assisting the government to improve the management system, the social…
Russia: Bank Assistance for the Energy Sector (Richard Berney) (Russian)
The Bank has rightly followed differing approaches to working with each subsector, based on its evaluation of the central problems of that sub-sector, and on its assessment of the Government's willingness to accept Bank…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Public Financial Accountability (Vinod Sahgal and Deepa Chakrapani) (Russian)
The Bank-wide efforts in strengthening PFA institutions point to two important lessons: i) Building institutional capacity in transition economies for public sector accountability systems is a long-term initiative that…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Financial Sector Development (Russian)
The Bank's appreciation of the importance of financial sector development to the success of the overall reform process, and its diagnosis of the measures needed for that development to occur, have changed little over…
Russia: Bank Assistance for Private Sector Development (Russian)
In this paper the authors critically assess the Bank's sector assistance strategy in private sector development and financial sector development, which can be broadly considered in four distinct phases. Phase 1, the…