Trapped in Informality: The Big Role of Small Firms in Russia’s Statist-patrimonial Capitalism

Figures & data

Figure 1. Dynamics of corruption, rule of law and property rights (1995–2015). Source: World Bank, World Governance Indicators; Heritage Foundation (2015), Index of Economic Freedom. Note: all indicators are converted to a scale from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest).

Figure 2. Development of Russian SMEs (1992–2014). Source: Rosstat, own calculations.

Table

Position	Code	White or grey	Date of interview
Entrepreneur/M, sewing factory, Moscow Oblast	B1	White?	4.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, publishing house, Moscow	B2	White	4.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, retail, Moscow	B3	White?	6.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, PR agency, Moscow	B4	White	8.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, street food, Moscow	B5	Grey	8.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, medical clinic, Moscow	B6	Grey	9.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, construction company, Moscow	B7	Grey	10.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, private kindergarten, Moscow	B8	White?	10.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, legal services, Moscow	B9	Grey	10.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M^a, manufacturing (chemicals), Moscow	B10	White	11.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, translation agency, Moscow	B11	Grey/black	11.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, construction company, Moscow	B12	Grey	14.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, retail, Moscow	B13	Grey?	15.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M, manufacturing (metal), Vishniy Volochek (Tver Oblast)	B14	Grey	15.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M, IT services, Moscow	B15	White?	15.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M, manufacturing (furniture), Kaluga (Kaluga Oblast)	B16	White?	16.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M^a, manufacturing (plastic), St. Petersburg	B17	White?	17.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M^a, manufacturing (metal), St. Petersburg	B18	Grey?	17.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, retail, Moscow + assistant of a Duma deputy	B19	Grey?	18.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M, retail, Moscow	B20	Grey	21.04.2014
Entrepreneur/M, confectionary production, Moscow	B21	Grey	21.04.2014
Entrepreneur/S, manufacturing (industrial fans), Zelenograd (Moscow Oblast)	B22	Grey	22.04.2014
(former) Entrepreneur/S, car retail, Moscow	B23	Grey	23.04.2014
Business association executive, Moscow	A1		3.04.2014
Business association executive, Moscow	A2		7.04.2014
Business association executive, Moscow	A3		8.04.2014
Corporate Lawyer (Centre ‘Business Against Corruption’), Moscow	L1		7.04.2014
Corporate Lawyer, private legal company, Moscow	L2		7.04.2014
Academic, Moscow	E1		9.04.2014
Academic, Moscow	E2		14.04.2014
Academic, Moscow	E3		21.04.2014
Academic, Moscow	E4		22.04.2014
Journalist, ‘Kommersant Dengi’, Moscow	J1		8.04.2014
Journalist, ‘Forbes Russia’, Moscow	J2		11.04.2014

Heritage Foundation. (2015), Index of Economic Freedom (Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation). Available from: http://www.heritage.org/index/ [accessed 15 May 2017].

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