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Take the R Out of BRIC | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in December 2nd, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

What on Earth is Russia doing on the list of top emerging economies?
As Russia proudly boasts its prominence at G-20 summits, gatherings of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), and other global economic round tables, an embarrassing question arises. Does Russia really deserve to be a BRIC? The country’s economic performance has plummeted [...]

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Oil – Hope and anxiety

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Oil, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

THE price of a barrel oil went past $68 during the day on Monday June 1st, the highest level in seven months. Although this remains less than half the peak of last July, prices are likely to remain above the norm of the past few decades, lifted with every bit of cheery economic news and [...]

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If China loses faith the dollar will collapse

Posted by Matt in May 5th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in China, Financial, U.S., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Emerging economies such as China and Russia are calling for alternatives to the dollar as a reserve currency. The trigger is the Federal Reserve’s liberal policy of expanding the money supply to prop up America’s banking system and its over-indebted households. Because the magnitude of the bad assets within the banking system and the excess [...]

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Russia: As the economy deteriorates, even oligarchs are suffering

Posted by Matt in March 21st, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

RUSSIANS are hardly falling over themselves to watch Dmitry Medvedev’s weekly televised talks. Muscovites, it seems, would prefer a Hollywood movie. For one thing, Mr Medvedev has little positive to say. Oil prices have stabilised above $40 a barrel and Russia’s two main stock indices have rallied a little. But the torrent of grim economic [...]

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Economic Catastrophe Propels Russia into an Identity Crisis

Posted by Matt in March 2nd, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Financial, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The economic crisis is affecting Russia worse than most developed or emerging economies, but its direct impact, such as the recession in industry that is expected to become even more serious in February, is multiplied by the psychological shock from the sudden collapse of belief in a resurgent Russian state. … and included three key [...]

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Warning for the West as crisis spills onto streets

Posted by Matt in February 16th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Financial, Middle East, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The slump that has swept through developed nations like the UK, the eurozone and the United States is hitting the world’s emerging economies with a speed and ferocity that has shocked even the most pessimistic analysts.

Economists are particularly concerned about conditions in the Baltic countries, Eastern Europe and Russia, which still has a formidable nuclear [...]

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Building BRICs of growth

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Brazil, China, India, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Record spending on infrastructure will help to sustain rapid growth in emerging economies
THE biggest investment boom in history is under way. Over half of the world’s infrastructure investment is now taking place in emerging economies, where sales of excavators have risen more than fivefold since 2000. In total, emerging economies are likely to spend an [...]

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Rising Brics – For a new order

Posted by Matt in June 3rd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Brazil, China, India, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

BRIC shows signs of emerging as an alliance in an exercise seen as a challenge to the U.S.-dominated unipolar world order.
BRIC, an acronym coined by Goldman Sachs a few years ago to define a group of large emerging economies with fast growth rates, was born in May this year as a formalised grouping aspiring to [...]

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