IMF Staff Country Reports

Russian Federation: Selected Issues

October 20, 2005

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Russian Federation: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed March 17, 2025

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the entrenched inflation in Russia. It presents a possible explanation for the entrenched inflation stating that the Russian economy is facing increasing supply-side constraints in goods and labor markets. The paper focuses on measuring the performance of fiscal policy in Russia. It examines capital structures and vulnerabilities for the corporate sector in Russia. Recent developments and remaining challenges for the Russian banking sector are analyzed. Terms of trade and economic growth in the Former Soviet Union are also discussed.

Subject: Fiscal policy, International trade, Prices, Production

Keywords: Africa, Arithmetic trend, Baltics, Bank, Capacity utilization, Central and Eastern Europe, CR, Fiscal stance, Global, ISCR, Oil price balance, Oil prices, Oil revenue, Output gap, Output gap estimate, Terms of trade, Terms of trade growth, Terms of trade shock, Western Europe

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    131

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/379

  • Stock No:

    1RUSEA2005003

  • ISBN:

    9781451833140

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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Also available online in Russian.

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