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Area of Expertise

Municipal budgets, regional budgets, housing, social protection, urban poverty, mortgage finance, intergovernmental relations, municipal economic development, and urban development.

Publications

• Application of Performance Budgeting Mechanisms in Municipal Governance Practices (in Russian)

Major Current Activities

• Analysis of municipal budgets
• Public institutions reform support in the Russian federation
• Development and dissemination of a methodology to account for the total costs of public services
• Design of regional and municipal strategies to increase transparency and efficiency of means-tested social assistance
• Survey-based analysis of the quality of public services and citizen satisfaction
• City marketing methods dissemination
• Development and dissemination of new models of providing affordable housing to moderate and slightly below moderate income households
• Dissemination of advanced local governance procedures and models
• Fostering new public-private partnerships and financial institutions supporting local activities