In the article "Money can't buy me love" in The Economist, Washington based Russia-watcher David Satter, states that the West had a dream of "a strong, friendly Russian government shouldering its shares of the world's problems". ... In addition, Russia has been the recipient of large amounts of financial aid and loans from the World Bank, the IMF, and various Western governments. ... In August of last year, the Russian government defaulted on $40 billion worth of debt in ruble bonds, rocking the world's economy. ... Also the government had a steady tax revenue stream. ... There ...

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In regard to more long-term solutions however the government has repeatedly backed away. ... The problem is that many governments are not prepared to spend the time that is needed to do this. ... The government's preference to short-term opinions is also due to their priority to economic policy. ... Adding to Premier Carr's argument is the fact that China and Russia have both agreed to sign the protocol (Clarke & Jones, 2002). ... For large, developing countries like Russia and China, this is a huge commitment. ...

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Economists were doubting the American system of free enterprise, and some thought Russia's command economy was the answer. ... If the government was going to earn less revenue, it would have to cut back spending to match it. ... The tactic worked, because at one point Russia was spending 60% of its budget on the military and still not spending as much as the United States.12 The weakened Soviet Empire lost its power and morale, and then collapsed in 1991. ... The government, like any responsible business, needs to eliminate deficits. ... Government regulation was a target of the R...

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Immigrant workers are especially essential to the United States and also Russia (ranked second for destination country for immigration) because the U.S. population is aging rapidly as the baby boom cohort is entering old age and retirement. ...

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For the next few years he began working for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, which was an official advisory agency of the Austrian government, taught a senior economics class at the Viennese Commercial Academy for Girls, and completed compulsory military service by serving a four week period of duty a year for 3 years. ... He was a captain with the artillery in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry located on the Eastern front in the Carpathian Mountains, Russian Ukraine, and Crimea. ... Here he wrote economic analyses of proposed government actions. ... In the most consistent versions of socialism...

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It argues that globalisation is undermining the ability of governments to provide a legitimate social bond between governors and the governed. ... Early definitions also demonstrated an optimistic, progressive, modernist teleology exemplified in Kenichi Ohmae's McKinseyesque cartography of a borderless world in which the nation state becomes increasingly irrelevant.6 Globalisation becomes a 'normalising discourse' of power conditioning the policy responses of governments to the perception, if not always the reality, of global market integration. ...

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On the contrary, taking into considerations the RA government program of fight against corruption and SE the results of our work will be more effective. ... A level of SE in the countries of CIS on 1995 made 62.6 % in Georgia, 60.6% in Azerbaijan, 48.9% in Ukraine, 41.6% in Russia, 19.3% in Byelorussia, 6.5 % in Uzbekistan correspondingly from GDP [4]. 3.2. ... According to Enste and Schneider [17], major factors, which influence on SE are the followings: tax sphere; social payments sphere; regulation sphere (the legislation and laws, decisions); labor market (reduction of working hours, rate...

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They are convinced that the IMF serves the imperialist designs of its principal shareholders, and imposes harsh conditionalities on the populations of poor countries to ensure the servicing of debts owed to creditor governments and financial institutions in the advanced capitalist countries. ... Introduction In the aftermath of the financial crisis in Mexico in 1994-95, followed in 1997-99 by a succession of crises affecting countries in South-East Asia, Korea, Russia and Brazil a world-wide debate on the operations of the IMF and its future role has been underway. ... A number of a...

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