I do apologize, of course. I’m already a bit concerned by the sheer number of comments about “Navalny and his narcissism” and “Navalny everywhere you look.” But here’s an interesting article. You can ignore the title. end of the obligatory “modesty” section

Ratio economica: The Navalny Effect The Wikileaks scandal showed that the level of government transparency in today’s world has become qualitatively different. How important is that for Russia?… Read in full Guriev and Tsyvinski present some interesting data on the relationship between economic growth and the level of corruption. It seems obvious enough, yet every time it gets called into question (“but what about China...”, “but what about South Korea...”, and so on).

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