... for their SWFs. Additionally, it would act as an emergency tool in easing the impact of a global crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, as it can be employed as an anti-crisis measure via the investments of the G20 states’ SWFs. One important ... ... benchmarks for the major sovereign wealth funds, which in turn would support the advancement of a green recovery in the global economy in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.
As regards Russia’s sovereign wealth funds, most notably the National Wellbeing Fund (NWF), which by Q1 2021 has accumulated more than ...
Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis
Russian economic ... ... pattern: in fact, since 2017, there has been a pronounced trend toward increasing divergence across the main sectors of the Russian economy. This has been significantly accentuated by the Covid crisis. The sectors exhibiting the highest growth appear to be those ...
... wide range of possible adversities of varying degree of probability
As the world economy comes to its senses after a gruesome year of the Covid pandemic, global markets... ... vaccines. According to RAND’s estimates the creation of a new effective vaccine against Covid-19 can deliver dividends to the world economy equivalent to 3.4 trn dollars, which... ... 5G network, with allocations for digital infrastructure to reach 0.6 trn dollars.
Russia’s economic performance next year will be affected to a significant degree by...
... global scene, the support for the markets has been undermined by waning anti-crisis stimuli from the main centres of the world economy. In the case of the US the current political scene is making it increasingly difficult for the Democrats and Republicans ... ... successful containment of the spreading of the pandemic limit the need for new anti-crisis measures.
Across all G20 countries Russia together with Saudi Arabia has one of the lowest levels of anti-crisis fiscal stimuli of around 4% of GDP. In September ...
... Syrian national currency and reduced potential investments in the recovery of the Syrian economy; more fuel was added to the fire when two explosions rocked the port of Beirut... ... individuals, one of them the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria.
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
Russia and Syria: Nuances in Allied Relations
The prospect of criminal prosecution in... ... from 20 to 36 cents).
Coronavirus Pandemic: Numbers and Reality
At first glance, the COVID-19 statistics in Syria look more optimistic than those of neighbouring countries...
... remittances with respect to the financing and budgetary needs
The Covid pandemic dealt a blow not only to the state of the world economy, but to its most important asset, namely human capital. In particular, one of the most significant implications of the ... ... the effects on the labour market, income and poverty levels in the developing countries is progressively deteriorating.
In Russia according to the official data the migrant inflow declined by as much as 50% in April, though subsequently starting from ...
... mutinous city of
Idlib
on July 9 — it had been previously noted that the number of COVID-19 cases could have been greater by an order of magnitude due to the lack of quarantine... ...
Initially, Syrian experts thought that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic. The authorities established a... ...
Stéphane Dujarric
. Damascus had to be content with donor deliveries from China, India and Russia. The sanctions took away the competitive edge of the local products due to high...
... about securing his second term in office
During the 2016 U.S. Presidential bid, Russia was
picked
as a scapegoat to justify the loss endured by the Democratic party... ... deliver an efficacious response to the pandemic, which has already put the country's economy at risk of
recession
with a gloomy long-term economic outlook.
Russia can no... ... Despite a minuscule
slide
in bilateral trade (a 4% decline compared to 2019) amid COVID-19, political cooperation has been developing. In early July, both countries ...
On July 9, 2020, the Russia-EU Forum video conference was held to discuss the geopolitical and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession. The conference was held by the Russian International Affairs Council, Aspen Institute (Italy), in cooperation with European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and with the support of the Italian Ministry of ...
... sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly (
https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/
). Many inmates ... ....ru/…/asset…/D2wHaWMCU6Od/content/id/4094236…
). The Minister urged to consider the possibility of return to the home country for all the Russian citizens incarcerated in the U.S. In addition, I personally addressed to Attorney-General W.Barr and head of the Federal ...
