Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook No.2(63) February 2018
Publication date
Tuesday, 20.02.2018
Authors
Gaidar Institute and RANEPA composite author
Series
Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook
Main topics of the issue: Russia’s economic growth characteristics in 2017-2018: incentives and constraints; Russia’s balance of payments 2017: steady BOP position; Import substitution in industry over the period 2014-2017: imports have retained their share; The banking sector: the year’s contradictory results; The mortality rate in Russia: what do the 2017 data mean?
Contents
Main trends and conclusions 3
1. Russia’s economic growth characteristics in 2017-2018: incentives and constraints (S.Drobyshevsky, S.Sinelnikov-Murylev) 7
2. Russia’s balance of payments 2017: steady BOP position (A.Bozhechkova, A.Knobel, P. Trunin) 12
3. Import substitution in industry over the period 2014-2017: imports have retained their share (S.Tsukhlo) 16
4. The banking sector: the year’s contradictory results (M.Khromov) 20
5. The mortality rate in Russia: what do the 2017 data mean? (R.Khasanova) 23
Authors 23
The monitoring is prepared with participation of experts of the Gaidar Institute and the RANEPA.
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-2018-2-871.pdf