The paper presents the results of a study of the national identity of social activists and opinion leaders in Belarus.

The authors argue that low levels of corporate political participation can be rationalized by the financial incentives of employees and shareholders who are the ultimate source of corporate contributions. Since even large firm-level benefits are trivial for individuals with small equity-stakes, few people have sufficient incentives to contribute.

This study is devoted to the theoretical concepts of fiscal multipliers and their assessment for the Belarusian economy, in particular the magnitudes of these multipliers for the revenue and spending parts of the budget of Belarus.

This is the first of a series of works devoted to factors, barriers and the effect of information technology (hereinafter - IT) implementation by Belarusian small and medium enterprises (hereinafter - SMEs) on the basis of a survey performed among 424 entities.

Recent studies have highlighted the role of human capital and good economic institutions in establishing comparative advantage in trade in complex institutions-intensive goods. We show that the effect of institutions on comparative advantage in services trade is quite different.

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare and compares the recent recession episode to previous economic crises in Belarus.