A factor, fostering Russia’s progress towards modernization of its economy and higher competitive ability of goods and services, is the attraction of foreign investment. Yet this progress is hampered by hard competition on the world market of capitals and a rate of favorability of the home investment climate.

Valery LISITSA. Law regulation of foreign investments in the North and South America

Conditions of implementing foreign investments in these countries.

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Victor MOSKVIN. Correction of risk nature notions

Correction of notions of risks themselves and of their ranges and parameters is important for students undergoing the active education, particularly by the end of that. The risk managers have to clearly understand what the risk is.

Oleg SUKHAREV. The Russian economy growth: does it call for correction of the macro-economic policy?

The growth of innovative economy in Russia calls for an optimum structure of the state sector, ruined in the 90th years. The economic analysis proves that disregard of this task makes the main obstacle for the growth of economy in Russia.

Leonid RATHKEEN. Investments in Russian atomic energy: is it the chain reaction?

Increasing investments in new equipment, projects, programs, etc. follows the development of the world nuclear energy. The article dwells on the restrains of this process in Russia, the fate of Russian nuclear R&D, investments in peaceful nuclear technologies.

Yuri SAVINOV, Anna ABRAMOVA. World trade in information technologies: regulation problems

This trade is now one of the most rapidly developing segments of the world economy. On one hand the constant progress of science and technology and world trade liberalization made it the catalyst of the economy growth, on the other hand it produces complications in regulating the world market of information technologies.

Olga ISABEKOVA. The economic nature of investment

The definition of «investment», classification of investments.

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