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As part of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, a ceremony took place to award the National Prize for Applied Economics, which this year went to William Pyle and Laura Solanko for their convincing validation of Mancur Olson’s hypothesis using unique data on Russian business associations.

The growth of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogate motherhood, etc, have changed our very idea of parentage. The concept of a parent as an integral and inseparable whole is now being broken down into a number of different roles – there are ‘genetic’ mothers, ‘birth’ mothers and ‘feeding’ mothers while fathers can be ‘genetic’ or ‘social’. This atomisation of parenthood explains the prevailing ambiguous attitude towards ART as Olga Isupova, Alexei Belianin and Anna Gusareva showed in their presentation at the HSE XV April International Conference ‘Economic and Social Development’, in the ‘Demography and Labour Markets’ Section.

Dabrowski M. Factors Determining a ‘Safe’ Level of Public Debt. M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2014

How to Assess a Democracy. What Alternatives? [Text] : rep. at XV Apr. Intern. Acad. Conf. on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, April 1–4, 2014.

Reynolds P. D. Tracking Business Creation: Understanding Organizational Emergence: rep. at XV Apr. Intern. Acad. Conf. on Economic and Social Develop ment, Moscow, April 1–4, 2014. M.: HSE, 2014

Yasin E. G. Influence of Culture on the Modernization of Russia: rep.at XV Apr. Intern. Acad. Conf. on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, April 1–4, 2014. M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2014

Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, spoke at opening of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

Martin Rama, chief Economist South Asia will take part in XV April international academic conference on economic and social development.