Reclaiming (the Urbanism of) Mumbai (2009)
Beja Da Costa, Ana, Favaro, Sabina, Adarkar, Neera, Desai, Padma, Sharma, Kalpana, ...
To Pay or Not to Pay: Managerial Decision Making and Wage Withholding in Russia (1998)
In this paper we investigate the decisions of Russian managers in distributing wage nonpayment in Russia during the 1994-96 period. Using a longitudinal survey of households, we identify a pattern of...
Wage Arrears, Poverty, and Family Survival Strategies in Russia (1998)
In this paper we use a longitudinal survey of Russian households for analyzing the impact of wage arrears on the incidence of poverty among families and their survival strategies. The failure of...
Russia's Market Transition: Who has lost and how? (1997)
In this paper, we analyze a variety of labor market adjustment issues facing Russian households from 1992 to 1996 on the basis of a panel data set which allows us to group the sample respondents by...
The Wage Arrears Crisis in Russia (1997)
In this paper, we propose an analytical framework suggesting that wage nonpayment in the Russian state sector and privatized factories, which resulted from acute cash flow problems in both, reflected...
Russia's Transition Toward the World Economy: Is the Market Mechanism Working? (1997)
By the end of 1993, the unified and freely convertible ruble on current account represented a major step in Russia’s foreign exchange management. The monetarist model of this paper (which gives a...
Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy (1997)
This essay analyzes the continuing integration of several transition economies of Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Asia into the world trading and financial system in the period 1990-95....
Modeling Soviet Agriculture for Assessing Commanding Economy Policies (1994)
A fixed effect production function model is adopted and estimated in this paper for evaluating the agricultural policies of the Soviet planners in Russia (formerly RSFSR) and Kazakhstan from 1953 to...
Estimates of Soviet grain imports in 1980-85: alternative approaches
Grain trade Soviet Union.,
Weather and grain yields in the Soviet Union:
Grain Climatic factors Soviet Union., Grain Yields Soviet Union., Grain production Soviet Union.,
A short-term planning model for the Indian economy.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Radcliffe College, 1960.
Russian Retrospectives on Reforms from Yeltsin to Putin
The kamikaze crew of liberal reformers, picked by former President Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s, succeeded in overturning the planned economy and the authoritarian political arrangements of seven...
On Reconstructing Price, Output and Value-Added Indexes in Postwar Soviet Industry and Its Branches.
Macroeconomic Fragility and Exchange Rate Vulnerability: A Cautionary Record of Transition Economies
To set the interview in context, Brian Snowdon first traces out some important landmarks in twentieth-century Russian/Soviet Union history. In the conversation that follows, Professor Desai gives her...
Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy
The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In...
Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis
The seventy-year-old Soviet tradition of "wages without work" soon turned into "work without wages" when the planned economy began switching to a market system in 1992. Lack of budget discipline, the...