Import Substitution

Abstract

This article analyzes experience with import substitution and localization of foreign products accumulated in Russia since 1998.

Keywords:

• import substitution
• localization
• auto industry
• agriculture

Notes

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21. Not published in this issue of Problems of Economic Transition.—Ed.