OECD - Paris, 21 November 2006
OECD Economic Survey of Russia
The OECD’s latest economic survey of Russia, to be published on Monday 27 November 2006, looks at the reforms required
to manage the country’s oil revenues more efficiently and to provide long-term economic stability. The study gives
special attention to improving public administration and healthcare and to boosting the effectiveness of innovation
policy.
The survey will be available to journalists in English on the OECD's password-protected website at 11.00 a.m. Paris time
(10.00 GMT; 1.00 p.m. in Moscow) for immediate release.
A Policy Brief with the main conclusions will be freely accessible in pdf format (in English, French, Russian and
German) on the OECD’s web site at www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/russia. You are invited to include these internet link in
reports on the survey.
A news conference on the survey will be held at 2.00 p.m. at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Alexander House, Ulitsa
Bolshaya Yakimanka, 1, Moscow. The review will be presented by Andreas Woergoetter, acting director of Country Studies
in the OECD Economics Department. To register for the news conference, journalists are invited to contact Kseniya
Osipova of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Press Service (tel. 650-84-51).
The publication is divided into the following chapters:
- Assessment and recommendations,
- Sustaining growth in the Russian Federation: key challenges,
- Macroeconomic management,
- Public administration reform,
- Raising the effectiveness of innovation policy,
- Reforming healthcare.
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