Mark Whitehouse, Columnist

Here's One Area Where Russia Beats the U.S.

By several key measures it has the world’s best economic management, says the IMF’s former top man in the country.

July 9, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC

Mark Whitehouse is a member of the editorial board covering global economics and finance. Previously, he reported on economics for the Wall Street Journal and was managing editor of Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily.

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In the eyes of the West, Russia does a lot of things wrong. It meddles in elections. It poisons people on foreign soil. It rides roughshod over free speech and democratic values.

But according to one Western economist, it may also have the world’s most responsible economic management.