The Russian Economy: Prospects and Retrospect

Abstract

Lectures and methodological materials on the prospects for the development of the Russian economy by The first Deputy managing Director of the International monetary Fund, Stanley Fischer, are presented. The publication is based on a shorthand recording of a lecture delivered at the HSE in Moscow on June 19, 2001. It expresses the author's views on Russian economic policy, which do not necessarily coincide with the position of the IMF.