growth of 1.5 percent would bring down the poverty rate from 13.2 percent to only 10.7 percent by 2024. And even if Russia … were to be able to catch up with the rest of the world, and grow at 3.2 percent annually, the poverty rate would fall to 8 …

-off effects, economic growth in Russia picked up in the third quarter at 1.7 percent, y/y. Consequently, our 2019 forecast has … agreement weighed on Russia's exports performance. Crude oil prices fell 14 percent in January-September 2019, y/y, reflecting a … downturn in the world economy …

Georgia is the only country in the CAC region that can access markets around the world through its own seaports and …

halving of world oil prices and lower export demand since resulted in a sharp slowdown with an average annual GDP growth rate …

Russia's economy experienced two shocks in 2014. On top of the structural crisis that began in 2012, Russia had to deal … with cyclical and idiosyncratic challenges to the economy. One of the new shocks illustrates Russia s integration into the … world economy through its natural resource exports, and thus its dependence on the global commodity cycle: oil prices more …