RUSSIA'S DIFFICULT CHOICE: ECONOMIC GROWTH OR FINANCIAL STABILITY?

摘要

Members of the Russian government's economic team, speaking on April 1 at a conference on the modernization of the economy and globalization organized by the Higher School of Economics, gave opposing assessments of the situation in the economy and, consequently, advocated contrasting recommendations on what course the government should take. The verbal sparring indicates that the new Russian government, likely to be headed by Vladimir Putin, will face a choice between two priorities: economic growth or financial stability.