... between 1991 and 2008. Before the financial crisis caused by, largely by American banking system Russia has made tremendous strides in economic modernization, not everything that was hoped for but certainly impressive gains. In part this was a hydrocarbon economy but not only.
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Igor Istomin:
Unraveling the Enigma: Western Expert
Community Seeks to Explain Russian Policy
There were other reasons, including first-stage liberalizing economic reforms that happened during the first term ...
... insinuations and spin doctoring. We met with
Arnaud Dubien
, Director of the think tank Observo located at the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to hear about the problems related to Russia business, foreign investments in the Russian economy, the pre-election mood in France and his favorite books.
The Russian media insists that foreign investments are returning to Russia. Do you think that this is true?
The answer is not that easy. The crisis is still present, although it seems to ...
... has 132 thousand. Most of these users are opponents of Dilma Rousseff’s government and are campaigning for changes in the current model of development, the adoption of a policy of economic liberalization, limits on government interference in the economy and the creation of more favorable conditions for entrepreneurs. A small minority – in particular, the “Down with All” movement (Fora Todos) – unites left-wing radicals,
advocating the establishment of workers’ power
...
... China’s foreign exchange policy. Both factors are essentially “technical”, rather than fundamental. As such, they answer the main question regarding this reshuffle of leading borrowers: Is Japan regaining lost ground in the global economy?
At the same time, a full and complete answer to this question is impossible without projecting the situation onto the macroeconomic situation in both countries. The policy of quantitative easing in Japan is one of three areas of “Abenomics”,...
... index for evaluating interstate differences is GDI (gross national income) per capita (Fig. 1). Since 1991, India has been in the top ten countries of the world in terms of economic growth. Despite the decline in this figure to 4.4% in 2014, the Indian economy has shown accelerated development in its service industry, as well as a recovery in its agriculture sector
[1]
. Moreover, economic growth in 2015 is expected to reach 6.2% due to an increase in industrial production and new investment projects....
... safest and most orderly countries in the world in just one generation.
When the Dutch economist, Dr. Albert Winsemius, arrived in Singapore to examine the country’s potential in industrialization in 1960, he gloomily remarked upon the sluggish economy as a “
poor little market in a dark corner of Asia
”. Labor strikes, capital flight, and uncertainty over political stability under the newly elected People’s Action Party (PAP) – led by then only 35-year-old Lee – ...
... rate will be reduced from 30% to 25%, which,
according to Arun Jaitley
, “accompanied by removal of various kinds of tax exemptions and incentives for corporate taxpayers”, should increase tax revenues and the attractiveness of the Indian economy for business, including foreign companies.
The external conditions favor economic reforms, but Narendra Modi is more a politician than an economist and is afraid to lose political capital at the very beginning of his term.
The new budget puts ...
... signal to encourage consumer activity, to lower the savings rate and to stimulate demand.
Nevertheless, despite the dynamic efforts by the monetary policy authorities to stimulate domestic demand, expectations of increased deflationary pressure on the economy are still present. The current structural imbalances in the Chinese economy are a clear reflection of the consequences of increased production in the pursuit of export earnings in the absence of an adequate forecast of demand dynamics on both ...
During a new spiral of economic crisis, it becomes increasingly difficult to build new businesses and develop existing ones. In an interview with RIAC,
Alexander Rappoport
, a lawyer, an expert on investment, and a restaurateur, shares his insights on how to set up in business, work with investments and look for a niche in the restaurant business.
You have worked for many years in US investment banks. Could you give some advice to an investor who is starting his career in a declining market?
Any...
... cutbacks rather than anti-inflationary measures, including high consumer credit card rates, hurt working Brazilians the most. They have a potential to spark spontaneous riots like the social explosions of 2013.
Government sources now indicate that the economy is about to contract this year by around a negative 1.1 percent, signaling recession. Economic reform is likely to continue and could become an issue in the 2018 presidential election.
Meanwhile former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues ...
