HSE Experts Presented a Paper in Paris
Maria Sheluntsova, Associate Professor at the HSE Perm Department of Financial Management, and Tatiana Kossova, Associate Professor at the Subdepartment of Public Administration and Public Economics, presented their paper ‘Social Discount Rate for Russia: sectors imbalances and value selection’.
The presentation provoked a stimulating discussion. Many of the questions from the conference participants were about Russian practices of evaluating public sector investment projects, as well as questions about the opportunity to apply developed methodological solutions for evaluating the social component of private sector projects.
Presentations by other experts covered studies and their results in the economics of health care, education, and labour, and involved issues of healthy lifestyle development, decreasing poverty, inequality, environment and quality of life improvement.