Reports
Ukraine Country Report Apr21 - April, 2021
Ukraine’s economy continues its strong post-Covid recovery in February, albeit remaining in the red. Although the economic indicators for 1Q21 will likely be sluggish, they should improve ... more
Iran Country Report Apr21 - April, 2021
Iran has moved out of its three-year recession after recording two consecutive quarters of growth, the Central Bank of Iran’s (CBI’s) governor Abdolnasser Hemmati has announced on his Instagram ... more
Turkey Country Report Apr21 - April, 2021
Has Erdogan totally lost sight of reality? On March 19, he fired the third central bank chief in less than two years. Balance of payments crisis and authoritarian crackdown seem ahead. Turkish ... more
Russia Country Report Apr21 - April, 2021
The Russian economic recession has ended, according to the Higher School of Economics (HSE). Russia had one of the mildest contractions of any major economy in the world, however the recovery will be ... more
Georgia Country Report Apr21 - April, 2021
Georgia’s GDP contracted by 6.8% y/y in Q4, a quarter in which the country's economy was hit by the second lockdown that continued into the first quarter of 2021. The blow suffered at the end of ... more
Ukraine Country Report Mar21 - March, 2021
After a year of doom and gloom, Ukraine escaped 2020 in pretty good shape. The economy shrank by 4%, better than most of Europe and far better than the Ukraine forecasts of minus 7%. Despite ... more
Iran Country Report Mar21 - March, 2021
Iran has endured three years of recession under the renewed US sanctions. The first of those sanctions kicked in halfway through 2018, a year that brought a GDP contraction of 6%. Things worsened in ... more
Turkey Country Report Mar21 - March, 2021
Erdogan cut the Biden administration’s comb over the PKK. Now, he will play them like a fiddle. Erdogan is smarter than all of them when it comes to playing issues off against each other and the ... more
Russia Country Report Mar21 - March, 2021
Russia’s economic results for 2020 were encouragingly good. The acceleration of the covid-19 pandemic in Russia during the second half of 2020 reduced economic activity due to such factors as ... more
Georgia Country Report Mar21 - March, 2021
Georgia’s GDP contracted by 11.5% y/y in January, deepening from 7.9% in December, according to a flash estimate from statistics office Geostat. The contraction is almost twice the 6.1% average ... more
Turkey Country Report Feb21 - February, 2021
For an outlook of what bne IntelliNews expects this year read our 2021 Outlook: It all hinges on Joe Biden. Turkey’s new COVID-19 data is still fake. Electricity consumption remained flat ... more
Ukraine Country Report Feb21 - February, 2021
For an outlook of what bne IntelliNews expects this year read our 2021 Outlook Ukraine was hit hard by the coronacrisis, but the economy weathered the story surprising well at the end of the day. ... more
Russia Country Report Feb21 - February, 2021
For an outlook of what bne IntelliNews expects this year read our 2021 Outlook Russia finished 2020 with a milder than expected 3.1% contraction, according to preliminary data from the Economics ... more
Iran Country Report Feb21 - February, 2021
Iran has endured three years of recession under the renewed US sanctions. The first of those sanctions kicked in halfway through 2018, a year that brought a GDP contraction of 6%. Things worsened in ... more
Georgia Report Country Feb21 - February, 2021
Independent university-based economic think tank ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) expects GDP annual growth in 2020 to be -5.5%, but the impact of the coronavirus lockdown in December and January ... more
Russia Country Report Jan21 - January, 2021
After a rapid recovery in the summer, the Russian economy weakened again in the last months of 2020 and the mild recovery in various industries was mixed. The summer saw a rapid bounce back as ... more
Ukraine Country Report Jan21 - January, 2021
Ukraine’s real GDP plunged 3.5% y/y in 3Q20 to UAH1,157bn ($41.9bn), improving from a 11.4% y/y plunge in 2Q20, the State Statistics Service reported on December 21, confirming its preliminary ... more
Ukraine Country Report Jan21 - January, 2021
Ukraine’s real GDP plunged 3.5% y/y in 3Q20 to UAH1,157bn ($41.9bn), improving from a 11.4% y/y plunge in 2Q20, the State Statistics Service reported on December 21, confirming its preliminary ... more
Ukraine Country Report Jan21 - January, 2021
Ukraine’s real GDP plunged 3.5% y/y in 3Q20 to UAH1,157bn ($41.9bn), improving from a 11.4% y/y plunge in 2Q20, the State Statistics Service reported on December 21, confirming its preliminary ... more
Ukraine Country Report Dec20 - December, 2020
Economically things in Ukraine are not doing too badly. Politically they have been a disaster in the last two months. Ukraine GDP rebounded by 8.5% q/q in Q3, which pulled the year-on-year growth ... more
