CONTENTS

Volume 8, 2002

 

Investment CLIMATE

Dmitry BURLOV. Law regulation of foreign investment : the world experience

Any state is interested in drawing foreign investment in its national economy. To this end an adequate investment policy is designed which sets up particular lines and means to control the foreign investment access in the economy of a recipient country as well as to further investment drawing in.

Victor MOSKVIN. Specific features of the Russian business environment

Obviously, this environment differs for different countries, it may be different in various parts of a country. What does it depend on?

 

Investment MARKET

Tatiana LEBEDINSKAYA. Developing links between the population and the banking system as a basis for intensifying the investment process in Russia

To increase the investments in the economic and social development presents a very acute problem in Russia. The population savings kept in the banks are an important source of capital investments. The author considers this issue for a few recent years.

Boris MORGUNOV. The investment policy and ecology in the Arctic

The vast Arctic zone of Russia is paramount as an area of world political and economic collaboration and cooperation and an enormous region accumulating and spreading contaminants. The author offers new methods of elaborating environment friendly economic decisions without negative ecological consequences.

Elena ROMANOVA. The USA capital export to Russia through the state channels

This export is significant for economic relations of the two countries and is carried out both as a program of economic aid and as a program facilitating export and private investment. By this means the USA attempts to create in Russia an open market economy based on competition, to develop democratic administration and civil society, as well as to secure the USA national interests by diminishing mutual threat.

 

Investment TECHNOLOGIES

Oleg SUKHAREV. Investment and the «shadow» economy: capital formation in the legal and illegal sectors of industry

The explosive growth of the «shadow» economy was unexpected for many Russian economists and politicians in the transition period. General opinion was  that while the country moves towards capitalism the «shadow» economy would be cutting down. Yet they did not take into account the effect of the economic system institutialization.

 

Innovation

Alexandr DEVITAIKIN, Alexandr POPOV, Volemir SMOLYARENKO. Innovation management: assessment of innovations as the objects of intellectual property in order to reimburse investment costs

The intellectual property objects are assessed within the project of the Regional ecological center for wastes recycling with the use of innovation technologies and equipment.

Eduard EGIASARYAN. The investor’s bonanza - investment in the Russian microelectronic instrument manufacturing

New measurement methods and tools are of paramount importance for every industry in any country.

 

Reference and advice

Ivan YELISEYEV. Energy and foreign investment

Review of L. K. Linnik’s book “Foreign capital in the Russian power industry: present and future” (Moscow: ZAO “MK-Periodika”, 2002. - 240 pp).