... 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 ...
... country suggests electronic voting. This form was used by more than
127 thousand voters
of the total number of about 900 thousand.
Here are some features of the electoral cycle.
First, there is an obvious crisis of ideas and economic projects while economy is stagnating and military and infrastructure expenses go up.
The SEB Bank left unchanged the previously compiled forecast of the Estonian
economic growth
in 2015 at 1.8 %. In 2014, Estonia ranked third among the Baltic States in terms of growth ...
Vladimir Mau, one of the authors of the Russian economic reforms of the 1990s, spoke with RBTH about the challenges facing the country's economy.
After oil prices started their now-infamous downslide in September 2014, the Russian ruble suffered a dramatic collapse. In an interview with RBTH at the Gaidar Economic Forum in Moscow, Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of the National ...
... expansion of conflicts and so on? Without a doubt, yes. Without this [cooperation] we will lose our country’s status as a great power. Not to mention that the Russian people have an interest in eliminating dangerous international situations.
On the economy
Russia is experiencing a difficult economic situation. There are external reasons: the fall in oil prices and the sanctions against Russia.
External changes that would favor Russia should not be expected anytime soon. It is doubtful that the sanctions ...
