No. 187: Economic Strategy and Inequality

Author(s): Andrei Yakovlev, Thomas F. Remington
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 187
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2016

This edition focuses on economic strategy and economic inequality in Russia. Firstly, Andrei Yakovlev analyses the economic programs put forward by the Stolypin Club, the Ministry of Economic Development, and Alexei Kudrin’s group, which were discussed by the Russian Economic Council earlier this year. Secondly, Thomas F. Remington traces the upward trend in income and wealth inequality in Russia, concluding that over the long run these levels of economic inequality will cause instability

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