Georgia’s economy rose by 9.6% y/y in December 2021 and ended the full year with an outstanding double-digit growth rate of 10.6%, according to preliminary data issued by the statistics office ... more
The outlook for Turkey in 2022 promises increasing tensions that lead ineluctably to bloody violence. No outcomes will be a surprise in a country now ridden by multiple crises. How to name ... more
Russia’s macro indicators end 2021 in good shape as the economy recovered quickly from the double whammy of coronacrisis and an oil price shock. And the stock market was booming until ... more
The World Bank in its latest Global Economic Prospects published on January 11 has upgraded its real GDP growth projections for Iran, anticipating estimated GDP gains of 3.1% in 2021, 2.4% in 2022 ... more
Georgia’s economy rose by 9.6% y/y in December 2021 and ended the full year with an outstanding double-digit growth rate of 10.6%, according to preliminary data issued by the statistics office ... more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest World Economic Outlook published on October 13 has stuck with its forecast for a 2.5% expansion in Iran’s economic growth in 2021. The Fund also ... more
Georgia’s economy remained steady at 6.9% in October, at the same level as in September, according to the preliminary data released by the statistics office Geostat. For the first 10 months of the ... more
1.0 Executive summary 2.0 Politics 2.1 UK Supreme Court hears Ukraine position on $3bn Yanukovych debt 2.2 Green bond scandal 2.3 Politics - misc 2.3 Polls & Sociology 3.0 Macro Economy 3.1 ... more
The Russian economy continues to rebound, but the pace of recovery has slowed down, according to Russian Accounts Chamber. The Russian economy grew 4.3% y/y during the third quarter, but the ... more
Ukraine’s GDP picked up steam in August, increasing by 2.9% since January, compared to 2.1% from January to July. “The economy is now in a recovery phase,” the Economy Ministry said ... more
HARDCORE: On October 21, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cut the policy rate by another 200bp to 16%. With this latest move, Turkey’s monetary policy dives deeper into uncharted territory. It is not ... more
The Russian economy continued to normalize on a y/y basis in September, with the GDP growth rate slowing to 3.4% y/y during the month vs. 3.7% y/y in August. Russia’s 3Q21 GDP growth is estimated ... more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest World Economic Outlook published on October 13 has stuck with its forecast for a 2.5% expansion in Iran’s economic growth in 2021. The Fund also ... more
Georgia's economy expanded 12.0% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a 5.6% drop in the year-earlier period, preliminary government data showed on September 30. The gain ... more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did it again. On September 23, Turkey shocked with a 100bp rate cut. More cuts are awaited despite booming (even official) inflation and global inflationary period. ... more
Ukraine’s real GDP increased 5.7% y/y in 2Q21, the State Statistics Service reported on September 20, improving on its preliminary estimate of 5.4% y/y. However, economic growth is slowing as the ... more
Rosstat revised its 2Q21 GDP estimates up to 10.5% y/y in the quarter, up from the preliminary estimate of 10.3% y/y. The growth was the highest since the economic bounce back in 2000, following the ... more
Iran’s economy grew by 3.6% in the 2020/2021 Persian calendar year (ended March 20), Akbar Komijani, lately appointed caretaker governor at the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), was cited as saying by ... more
Georgia's economy expanded 12.0% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a 5.6% drop in the year-earlier period, preliminary government data showed on September 30. The gain ... more
In the first year of a new decade, it looks like we have a new phase on our hands. With its withdrawal, the US left a nuclear device in Afghanistan that will explode again and again in the middle of ... more