Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimir Mau Author-Name-First: Vladimir Author-Name-Last: Mau Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Post-communist Country Assistance Programs: Some Approaches to Evaluation of Factors Affecting Their Efficiency Abstract: It is for nearly half a century that the problem of measuring efficiency of provision of assistance by more developed countries to less developed ones has been in the center of attention of economists. Notably, in the period after World War II the world has witnessed several stages (models) of assistance that appeared different both in terms of countries-recipients of that and by forms of the assistance provided. Length: 17 pages Creation-Date: 2012 Revision-Date: 2012 Classification-JEL: O19, H77 Keywords: economic assistance, Russian economy, assistance efficiency File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0038Mau.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2012 Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0038