Maize boosts this year’s grain harvest in China
China Maize boosts this year’s grain harvest in China China’s National Bureau of Statistics reports that the country’s total grain harvest this year amounted to 683 million metric tons, a 2 % i...
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China nears euro area in terms of consumed foreign value added of goods and services
China China nears euro area in terms of consumed foreign value added of goods and services The OECD released its latest Trade in Value Added (TiVA) assessment in mid-November. The figures cover 66 e...
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Chinese efforts to stave off economic slowdown to continue in 2024
China Chinese efforts to stave off economic slowdown to continue in 2024 In recent months, China has employed a wide variety of measures to stimulate economic growth (BOFIT Weekly 44/2023). Most of ...
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Russian inflation slowed substantially in 2016
Russian inflation slowed substantially in 2016 Consumer prices were up 5.4 % y-o-y at the end of December, the lowest pace for 12-month inflation since spring 2012. Inflation was nearly 13 % at the e...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017
This year’s economic goals rolled out at National People’s Congress
China This year’s economic goals rolled out at National People’s Congress On Saturday (Mar. 5), the 2,980-member People’s National Congress convened for a week-long plenary session in Beijing. As pa...
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Russian government budget framework assumes lean years ahead
Russian government budget framework assumes lean years ahead In its latest budget framework proposal to the government, the finance ministry expects the nominal value of government revenues to fall t...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
Depressed Russian demand and output continued in May
Depressed Russian demand and output continued in May For the third month in a row, the volume of retail sales was down about 9 % y-o-y. The contraction for the first five months of 2015 was over 7.5...
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IMF report clarifies issues on possible inclusion of yuan in SDR basket
IMF report clarifies issues on possible inclusion of yuan in SDR basket The IMF Board will decide this November on adding the Chinese yuan to the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket reserve cu...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
Large shifts in structure of government revenues and spending
Large shifts in structure of government revenues and spending In the first half of 2015, revenues to the consolidated budget (federal, regional and local governments, plus state social funds) remain...
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China surpasses the US in volume of international patent applications
China China surpasses the US in volume of international patent applications 2019 figures just released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialised UN agency, show that a to...
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Russian government issues lean proposals for 2016 federal and state social fund budgets
Russian government issues lean proposals for 2016 federal and state social fund budgets In submitting its draft budgets to the Duma, the finance ministry included an estimate for total government-sec...
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China ranked the world’s top FDI recipient in 2020
China China ranked the world’s top FDI recipient in 2020 In a trend running counter to the rest of the world, foreign direct investment flows to China increased last year amidst the global pandemic ...
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Russian Duma approves adjustments to federal and social fund budgets for 2015
Russian Duma approves adjustments to federal and social fund budgets for 2015 The Duma made no change to the government’s proposed federal budget in aggregate, even if the modifications had caused h...
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Russians experienced drop in real household incomes last year
Russians experienced drop in real household incomes last year Rising inflation caused real household incomes to contract by nearly 1 % last year. When inflation flared in November and December 2014, ...
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Minor shifts in the structure of Russian foreign trade
Minor shifts in the structure of Russian foreign trade Measured in US dollars, the value of both goods exports and goods imports contracted by 30 % y-o-y in the fourth quarter of 2015. The rate of co...
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Global growth outlook improves, but tariff uncertainty creates significant downside risks
BOFIT Weekly Review,world economy Global growth outlook improves, but tariff uncertainty creates significant downside risks In its latest World Economic Outlook update, the International Monetary Fu...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
Mainland China’s stock markets have been on a rise for the past two months
China Mainland China’s stock markets have been on a rise for the past two months Dragged down by uncertainty, share prices of companies listed on Chinese stock exchanges took a beating in the first ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
European Chamber reports tougher Chinese business environment
China European Chamber reports tougher Chinese business environment The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber) released its latest position paper at the end of September. The...
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China celebrates 40 years of economic reform
China China celebrates 40 years of economic reform The milestone was celebrated on Tuesday (18.8.) in the high level meeting in Beijing. The meeting, however, offered nothing new concerning the futu...
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Poverty and income disparity remain big challenges for China
China Poverty and income disparity remain big challenges for China China has spent recent years “battling” poverty, specifically elimination of “absolute poverty” by the end of 2020. The government’...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020