Monitoring of Russia's Economic Outlook, Issue No.17(55), October 2017 has been released

No.17(55), 2017 of the analytical review of the current trends and recent developments in the Russian economy – Monitoring of Russia's Economic Outlook: Trends and Challenges of Social and Economic Development – is now available online.

Main topics of the issue: Russian retail lending market yet to recover to pre-crisis levels; The middle class is getting out of the crisis, but has apprehensions about the future; Industrial sector feels fine about its labour productivity; Russia’s economic aid to other countries in 2016; Tax on extra revenue to introduce in oil industry.

The issue has been prepared by a group of experts from the Ye.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (Gaidar Institute) and the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).