Management of Equation of the Federal Budget: Foreign Debt to Russia
The quality of state budget planning and implementation process is directly connected with issues of management of foreign state debt and foreign financial assets. The article analyzes legal regulation of foreign debt management issues in Russia, the structure of its public debt and debt of foreign states to Russia. Possible schemes of debt restructuring including write-off, buy-back, several types of conversion and securitization are described. Principles of foreign debt settlement and Russia's participation in the Paris Club are presented. The article also deals with practical problems of settlement of foreign debts owed to Russia.
Бюджетирование, ориентированное на результат (новые тенденции)
The focus of public sector budgeting in many countries has changed from input budgeting to results-based one which calculates how many services or products are being produced. Main definitions and elements of the new concept, its advantages and the history of development are presented. The problems of using performance budgeting in Russia and other countries and ways of their resolving are described.
Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology
1: Introduction, V Santaniello et al. 2: Patent and Other Private Legal Rights for Biotechnology Inventions (Intellectual Property Rights - IPR), D D Evenson, P.L.L.C., Washington, USA 3: Intellectual Property Rights of Plant Varieties and of Biotechnology in the European Union, V Santaniello 4: Intellectual Property Rights under the Convention on Biological Diversity, W Lesser, Cornell University, USA 5: An Economic Approach to Identifying An `Effective Sui Generis System' for Plant Variety Protection Under TRIPS, W Lesser 6: Recent Intellectual Property Rights Controversies and Issues at the CGIAR, S H Bragdon, IPGRI, Rome, Italy 7: Economics of Intellectual Property Rights for Agricultural Technology, R E Evenson 8: The Market Value of Farmers' Rights, R Mendelsohn, Yale University, USA 9: International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology, B D Wright, University of California, USA 10: Knowledge Management and the Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology, D Zilberman and C Yarkin, University of California, USA and A Heiman, Hebrew University, Israel 11: Comparing Allocation of Resources in Public and Private Research, S Lemarie, Universite Pierre-Mendes, Grenoble, France 12: Biotechnology Inventions: What Can We Learn From Patents?, D K N Johnson, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA and V Santaniello 13: Biotechnology Inventions: Patent Data Evidence, A Zohrabyan, Yale University, USA and R E Evenson 14: Property Rights and Regulations for Transgenic Crops in North America, G Carlson and M Marra, North Carolina State University, USA 15: Intellectual Property Rights, Canola and Public Research in Canada, P W B Phillips, University of Saskatchewan, Canada