Russia and Ukraine implement further trade sanctions against each other
Russia and Ukraine implement further trade sanctions against each other With the entry into force of the free-trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU at the start of this year, Russia set its free...
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China invests heavily in domestic production of critical raw materials
china,BOFIT Weekly Review,economy China invests heavily in domestic production of critical raw materials China is the global leader in production of many critical raw materials, and the country is i...
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China stays with its diversified energy import strategy; natural gas consumption and imports on the rise
China China stays with its diversified energy import strategy; natural gas consumption and imports on the rise China is the world’s biggest energy consumer. It also remains by far the largest consum...
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Foreign investment by Chinese firms remained depressed last year
China Foreign investment by Chinese firms remained depressed last year UNCTAD figures put the value of global foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021 at just over 1.7 trillion dollars. It represente...
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Russia launches action plan until 2025 under its programme of population policy
Russia Russia launches action plan until 2025 under its programme of population policy The plan is the final phase of the population policy guideline approved by president Vladimir Putin in 2007. In...
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Prices for shares listed in Shanghai higher than in Hong Kong
Prices for shares listed in Shanghai higher than in Hong Kong The sharp rise in prices on the Shanghai stock exchange at the end of last year has moderated. At the close on Tuesday (Feb. 17), the Sha...
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Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose
Russia Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose As expected, preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that export revenues and impor...
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IMF lowers its forecast for Russian GDP
IMF lowers its forecast for Russian GDP The IMF’s newest World Economic Outlook projects a nearly one-percentage point deeper contraction in Russian GDP in 2016 than in its January forecast. The IMF ...
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China posts surprisingly robust first-quarter economic growth
China,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review China posts surprisingly robust first-quarter economic growth China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports GDP growth of 5.4 % y-o-y in the first three month...
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FIFA World Cup provides small boost to Russian economic growth
Russia FIFA World Cup provides small boost to Russian economic growth Russia's FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) reports that the soccer tournament drew nearly 600,000 foreign spec...
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China relaxes monetary policy
China relaxes monetary policy China this week lowered by a half percentage point the reserve requirement on bank deposits. Since March 1, large banks must place 17 % of their deposits with the People...
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Chinese economy shows slight signs of slowdown in August
China,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review Chinese economy shows slight signs of slowdown in August Economic figures suggest that economic growth slowed a bit in August. China’s National Bureau of Statistics...
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Tepid performance for Russian foreign trade in 2019; capital flows closer to balance
Russia Tepid performance for Russian foreign trade in 2019; capital flows closer to balance Preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that revenues from exports of...
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Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class
Russia Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private commercial bank, has released a study claiming that 30 % of the Russian population, about 43 mil...
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Domestic production struggles to keep pace with growth in consumption of grain crops in China
China Domestic production struggles to keep pace with growth in consumption of grain crops in China Over the past two decades, consumption of key grain crops in China has risen from less than 400 mi...
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Rapid increase in indebtedness in China continues on many fronts
Rapid increase in indebtedness in China continues on many fronts China’s booming credit growth shows no signs of abating. The stock of yuan loans grew 13 % y-o-y in August. With slowing corporate inv...
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China makes targeted relaxes to capital outflows
China China makes targeted relaxes to capital outflows The Bond Connect programme that allows foreign institutional investors to invest via Hong Kong in mainland China interbank market has been in p...
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Relaxation of capital controls and increased foreign trade help boost international use of the yuan
China Relaxation of capital controls and increased foreign trade help boost international use of the yuan SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, reports that in Janu...
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Reciprocal trade and global sharing of responsibility top the agenda of the EU-China summit
China Reciprocal trade and global sharing of responsibility top the agenda of the EU-China summit On Monday (Jun. 22), the EU and China held their annual summit via video. The EU’s tone has grown ha...
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The structure of Chinese GDP changes only slowly
China The structure of Chinese GDP changes only slowly At the end of May, National Bureau of Statistics published the demand structure of GDP for 2018. China’s evolution towards a consumption-driven...
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