The consumer price index stood at 0.6% in January 2014 (1.0% in January 2013), rising 0.1 p.p. above the value recorded in December 2013. Inflation reached 6.1% at the end of 12 months. The consumer price index stood at 0.5% within the first 17 days in February 2014. Net capital outflow from the...

This particular research essay focuses the role of central bank to control inflation in economy generally and SBP controlling mechanism particularly. It is an admitted fact that inflation and poverty are strongly correlated. Inflation is a deadly poison which not only hallows the economic...

How should we think about the determination of interest rates in China after interest rate liberalisation? Would effective deposit rates, lending rates and bond yields move higher or lower? We argue that interest rates in a liberalised environment would need to be anchored by the conduct of...

In November 2013, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) amounted to 0.6%, similar to October 2013 (vs. 0.3% in November 2012). As a result, the inflation rate in per annum terms, as seen by the results of the first 11 months of 2013, rose above 6.5%. Over the period from 1 December through 16 December,...

Further stabilization of inflation and the ruble exchange rate allowed the Bank of Russia Board of Directors to further cut the key interest rate to 11.50% p.a. on 15 June 2015. The cut was triggered by the fact that Russia's economy was still facing serious risks of a downturn amid weakening...

On 30 April 2015, the Bank of Russia reduced the key interest rate from 14% to 12.5% per annum, noting in this connection that the inflation risks had become less pronounced, but that the risks of a more significant cooling of the economy were still there. By all indications, the RF Central Bank...

Due to a shift in the balance of risks towards a more significant cooling of the economy, at the Bank of Russia Board of Directors' meeting on 13 March 2015 it was decided that the key interest rate should be reduced by 1 p.p. – to 14% per annum. In March 2015, the Consumer Price Index's...

Due to the fact that the balance of risks has moved towards a substantial cooling down of the economy, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided at its regular meeting on 13 March 2015 to lower by 1 p.p. the key interest rate to 14% p.a. In February 2015, the Consumer Price Index stood at...

In 2014, Russia's crude oil output hit its record high since 1990. At the same time, the growth rates of oil production and oil exports are displaying an obvious slowdown. Besides, some additional negative factors have emerged that impose still more constraints of the oil sector's further...

The key factor in the strengthening of the real exchange rate of the ruble in the 2000s was the transformation based growth of Russia's economy (the Balassa-Samuelson effect) coupled with the improving foreign trade conditions. As can be concluded on the basis of data for Q4 2014, for the...