Economic diversification and Dutch disease in Russia

Victoria Dobrynskaya and Édouard Turkisch ()

Post-Communist Economies, 2010, vol. 22, issue 3, 283-302

Abstract: Despite the impressive economic growth in Russia between 1999 and 2007 there is a fear that Russia may suffer the Dutch disease, which predicts that a country with large natural resource rents may experience de-industrialisation and lower long-term economic growth. This article examines whether there are any symptoms of the Dutch disease in Russia. Using a variety of Rosstat publications and the CHELEM database, we analyse the trends in production, wages and employment in Russian manufacturing industries, and we study the behaviour of Russian imports and exports. We find that, while Russia exhibits some symptoms of the Dutch disease, e.g. the real appreciation of the ruble, the rise in real wages, the decrease in employment in manufacturing industries and the development of the services sector, manufacturing production nonetheless increased, contradicting the theory of the Dutch disease. These trends can be explained by the gains in productivity and the recovery after the disorganisation in the 1990s, by new market opportunities for Russian products in the European Union and in CIS countries, by a growing Chinese demand for some products and by a booming internal market. Finally, investment in many manufacturing industries was largely encouraged, whereas investment in the energy sector was strongly regulated, which contributed to economic diversification.

Date: 2010
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