| 19.3.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 11/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Persistent rate hikes for municipal services continue.
- Impacts of global economic meltdown vary among CIS countries.
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| China |
- China’s 2009 state budget comes in on target.
- China’s international arms exports on the rise.
- China increases its share of Finnish foreign trade.
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| 12.3.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 10/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Innovation − Russia’s answer to economic modernisation.
- Finland-Russia trade contracted sharply in 2009.
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| China |
- China again targets 8 % GDP growth for 2010.
- Local administrations borrowing actively and raising China’s overall public debt.
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| 5.3.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 9/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Finance ministry pushing for return to tight fiscal policies.
- Decisions postponed on investment in development of massive Shtokman gas field.
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| China |
- Yuan exchange rate still firmly pegged to the dollar.
- Fixed capital investment and migration from the countryside seen as the biggest contributors to China’s productivity gains.
- Share prices level off; daily trading volumes down.
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| 26.2.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 8/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- January economic numbers offer little optimism.
- CBR lowers key rates by a quarter of a percentage point; rouble under pressure to rise.
- Banking sector growth flat-lined in 2009.
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| China |
- Land deals highly profitable for the state.
- Chinese data show only marginal Finnish direct investment in China.
- Other BRIC countries lag far behind China in international patent applications.
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| 19.2.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 7/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Gulf of Finland harbours playing greater role in Russian shipping.
- Government moves to support single-enterprise towns.
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| China |
- PBoC continues to tighten its monetary stance.
- Many cities and provinces increase their minimum wage definitions.
- OECD: China still has plenty of room to implement sweeping reforms.
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| 12.2.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 6/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Stimulus to continue this year.
- Viktor Yanukovich wins presidency of economically struggling Ukraine.
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| China |
- China’s smaller current account surplus last year helped ease global imbalances.
- Foreign trade continued to recover in January despite rise in trade frictions.
- Crisis turns China’s Russia trade balance negative.
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| 5.2.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 5/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Especially fixed capital investment posts sharp drop last year.
- Grey economy slightly increases its contribution to GDP during the downturn.
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| China |
- China’s influence in iron ore and base metal markets heightened by financial crisis.
- China’s coal imports exceptionally large in 2009.
- Market capitalizations of energy companies in developing countries soar.
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| 29.1.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 4/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Reforms in the Russia’s banking sector.
- Birth pangs for new Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union.
- Russia and Belarus agree on oil supplies.
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| China |
- China rising as science superpower; huge growth in research activity.
- China leads the world in car sales.
- Record harvest in 2009.
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| 22.1.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 3/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Russia continued to manage trade and current account surpluses in 2009.
- Capital exports from Russia fell in 2009; capital inflows turned positive in the fourth quarter.
- Russia’s foreign indebtedness declined slightly in 2009.
- Plans to develop Russia’s Far East.
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| China |
- China posted strong growth in 2009.
- Inflation picks up.
- Foreign currency reserves increased at near-record rate in 2009.
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| 15.1.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 2/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- Economy ministry says Russian GDP contracted 8.5 % last year.
- Economy ministry issues more upbeat 2010 forecast.
- 2009 federal budget deficit smaller than expected; 2010 budget outlook brightens.
- Moscow stock exchanges posted strong recovery last year.
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| China |
China tightens monetary policy. - China’s exports and imports recover to pre-crisis levels.
- Year starts with no big law changes, while introduction of new tort law looms.
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| 8.1.2010 |
BOFIT Weekly 1/2010 (PDF) |
| Russia |
- CBR lowers interest rates again, inflation rate slowing.
- Pensioners saw real increases even as wage growth stagnated in 2009.
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| China |
- China revises official figure for 2008 GDP growth upwards to 9.6 %.
- 2009 a good year for Chinese stocks.
- China’s 2009 exchange rate policy in review: dollar peg stayed firm as currency controls were relaxed.
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