Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook No.10(48) May 2017
Publication date
Thursday, 15.06.2017
Authors
Gaidar Institute, RANEPA, RFTA composite author
Series
Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook
Main topics of the issue: Russian inflation hits 2017 target rate; Optimal rouble exchange rate for Russia’s industrial sector; Regional budgets: revenues on rise, tough policies continue; International turnover of services in 2016: imports down due to administrative constraints; Minimum wage increase: pros and cons.
Contents
Main trends and conclusions 3
1. Russian inflation hits 2017 target rate (A.Bozhechkova, A.Kiyutsevskaya, P. Trunin) 6
2. Optimal rouble exchange rate for Russia’s industrial sector (S.Tsukhlo) 9
3. Regional budgets: revenues on rise, tough policies continue (I.Arlashkin, A.Deryugin) 13
4. International turnover of services in 2016: imports down due to administrative constraints (A.Knobel, А.Firanchuk) 18
5. Minimum wage increase: pros and cons (V.Lyashok) 23
Authors 26
Monitoring has been written by experts of Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (Gaidar Institute), Russian Presidental Academy of Natonal Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
Editorial board: Sergey Drobyshevsky, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladimir Mau and Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev.
Editor: Vladimir Gurevich.
Full version
http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/mreoen/mreoen-2017-10-839.pdf