How Will Russia's Economy Emerge from the Crisis?

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Channel: New America · 2009 · News & Politics

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The global economic crisis has called into question many of the assumptions made about the sustainability of Russia's economic development since 1999. Much of the economic growth over the past decade was relatively "easy" - the economy was expanding by using existing capacity that had been underutilized during the previous downturn. Future growth will need to come from higher productivity - making more and better use of available labor and capital resources.

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