Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irina Starodubrovskaya Author-Name-First: Irina Author-Name-Last: Starodubrovskaya Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Nina Mironova Author-Name-First: Nina Author-Name-Last: Mironova Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Problems of Rural Development in the Wake of the Municipal Reform in Russia Abstract: This publication addresses theoretical and practical aspects of rural life in Russia. The authors developed approaches to enhance rural evelopment in the framework of regional managerial strategies. Operation of the institutions of local development in Arhkangelsk oblast and the Republic of Karelia are investigated. Objective preconditions, constraints, institutional circumstances and the most preferable mechanisms of ensuring development on various types of rural territories are studied. The influence of municipal reform on all these issues is also demonstrated. Year: 2010 Issue: 141P File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/rpaper/69Starodubrovskaya.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Classification-JEL: H30, K10, R00 Keywords: Rural Development, Municipal Reform, Russia Handle: RePEc:gai:rpaper:69 Language:ru