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A Soviet legacy for present-day Russia is found in its resource dependency as well as its implicit exposition of resource rents from foreign trade in the national accounting. Estimating rents from the foreign trade of oil ...

Statistical agencies release their preliminary estimates of quarterly GDP growth with a publication delay that ranges from four to eight weeks. Given this lack of timeliness, nowcasting methods have been developed to produce ...

Joulukuussa järjestetyn BOFIT Kiina-tietoiskun viisi esitystä käsittelivät Kiinan taloutta ja yhteiskuntaa monesta eri näkökulmasta. Tähän julkaisuun on koottu esitysten keskeinen sisältö artikkeleina. Ensimmäinen artikkeli ...

Venäjän talousnäkymät näyttivät vielä vuoden alussa verrattain valoisilta, mutta nyt tilanne on synkentynyt huomattavasti. Koronapandemia ja öljymarkkinoiden romahdus iskevät voimakkaasti Venäjän talouteen ja BKT:n odotetaan ...

Russia is integrated with the global economy through trade and financial linkages, making it vulnerable to external shocks. To gain perspective on the importance of various external factors, we present a brief description ...

​In this note I gauge Russia’s future growth potential under various assumptions in a standard growth-accounting framework. Russia’s GDP growth during the next two decades will be substantially lower than during the previous ...

The outlook for economic growth in China remains highly uncertain and dependent on factors such as domestic economic policy and recovery in external demand. We attempt to assess China’s short-term growth outlook with readily ...

Since embarking on economic reform in 1991, India has experienced three decades of rapid economic development. Recently, however, there has been significant uncertainty about the growth outlook of the Indian economy in the ...

This paper updates my earlier calculations on Russia’s long-run growth potential using a standard growth accounting framework in which GDP growth depends on available labor, capital and efficiency in combining them, i.e. ...

This policy brief considers the newly clarified contributions of the military goods sector to economic growth in Russia from 2011 to 2015. The discussion is based on Rosstat’s recently released official data on disaggregated ...