Russia’s national ecology project addresses a range of environmental issues
Russia Russia’s national ecology project addresses a range of environmental issues One of the twelve programmes included in president Putin’s inaugural May Decrees of 2018 (BOFIT Weekly 08/2019) see...
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Credit rating agency Moody’s upgrades Russian sovereign debt
Russia Credit rating agency Moody’s upgrades Russian sovereign debt On February 8, Moody’s upgraded Russia’s credit rating score by a notch from Ba1 to Baa3, its tenth-best rating score. Bonds in th...
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Russian export earnings up significantly in 2018
Russia Russian export earnings up significantly in 2018 Preliminary balance-of-payments figures for the fourth quarter of 2018 show Russian revenues from exports of goods & services were up near...
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Big trouble for China's P2P platforms
China Big trouble for China's P2P platforms About 250 online peer-to-peer lending platforms went insolvent during recent months, as investors withdrew from China's P2P lending market. The co...
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More Chinese companies make Fortune Global 500 list
China More Chinese companies make Fortune Global 500 list This year's Fortune Global 500 (largest 500 firms in the world measured by total revenue converted to dollars) contains 111 Chinese firm...
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Banks still the largest issuers of green bonds in China
China Banks still the largest issuers of green bonds in China Bonds intended to finance environmental protection projects such as waste-water treatment facilities or climate-saving technology such a...
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CBR injects more money into troubled banks
Russia CBR injects more money into troubled banks The Central Bank of Russia last year had to take over three large private banks – Otkritie, B&N Bank and Promsvyazbank – to ensure their c...
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Tighter regulations affect income generation of China's insurance sector
China Tighter regulations affect income generation of China's insurance sector The size of China's insurance sector (total balance sheet assets) grew in the first quarter of this year by 6.5...
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Russian government receives abundant excess oil revenues
Russia Russian government receives abundant excess oil revenues Revenuesto the federal budget continued to climb up rapidly in the first quarter of this year, rising by well over 10 % from a year ea...
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Russian economy gradually recovers
Russia Russian economy gradually recovers Russian economy gradually recovers After rising throughout the spring, seasonally and workday-adjusted industrial output contracted slightly in June. In on...
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Chinese A-shares to be added to the MSCI EM index
Chinese A-shares to be added to the MSCI EM index Chinese A-shares to be added to the MSCI EM index After years of discussion, MSCI Inc., which publishes a number of key global stock market indices,...
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The big push of Finnish firms to invest in their Chinese affiliates came in 2015
The big push of Finnish firms to invest in their Chinese affiliates came in 2015 Statistics Finland figures for 2015 show that the affiliates of Finnish firms in China for the first time made China F...
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China’s economic growth slowed at the end of 2021
China China’s economic growth slowed at the end of 2021 China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last week released its economic figures for the fourth quarter of 2021. According to official esti...
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Russian markets fall as geopolitical tensions rise
Russia Russian markets fall as geopolitical tensions rise The declining market trend, which began at the end of October, has become steeper in recent weeks. The dollar-denominated RTS stock index ha...
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Chinese inflation accelerated and economic growth slowed in November
China Chinese inflation accelerated and economic growth slowed in November China’s National Bureau of Statistics reports that November consumer prices were up by 2.3 % y-o-y. As recently as Sep...
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China's filings of international patent applications jump last year
China's filings of international patent applications jump last year The number of Chinese patent applications in 2016 increased by 45 % y-o-y, totalling 43,170 filings. Patent application filings...
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Bank profitability improved in Russia, even with a decline in corporate borrowing
Bank profitability improved in Russia, even with a decline in corporate borrowing Figures from the Central Bank of Russia show total banking sector assets nominally declined last year by 3.5 %. If ru...
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Immediate impacts of US election results on the Russian economy appear minimal
Immediate impacts of US election results on the Russian economy appear minimal The immediate fallout from announcement on Wednesday (Nov. 9) morning of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Tru...
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China reaps good grain harvests this year
China reaps good grain harvests this year The National Bureau of Statistics reports that China has enjoyed bountiful grain harvests this year, even if the summer harvest was 2 million tons less than ...
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China’s competitiveness unchanged relative to other countries
China’s competitiveness unchanged relative to other countries The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) rankings of 140 countries put China this year in 28th place. China has ...
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