Vladlen Shorin: Concerning business projects for the development of Russian-Singaporean cooperation

PhosAgro CEO Andrey Guryev, the head of the Russian Fertilizer Producers Association, comments on the company’s initiatives to develop agriculture and ensure food security in the African region.

The World Bank Group has published a flagship report about the world development in 2020. The publication studies the causes and implications of the slowdown in globalization. Also, the World Bank analysts identify a number of threats that could nullify the progress on poverty reduction achieved over the last decade.

The current perspectives for the formation of international energy markets are mainly due to the policy of decarbonization of world energy and the growth of energy consumption. Each country forms its energy policy based on its own fuel and energy potential and the situation on international energy markets. The global oil market is currently largely dependent on global processes with a high degree of ‘uncertainty" associated with the use of protectionist and political methods of struggle in the global world economy. «Trade wars», and sanctions increase the uncertainty of the market for the «global» energy resource — oil. The global market for «alternative» energy and technology in this area is much more defined and predictable. The introduction of «platform» economy methods in the energy sector, in combination with the macroregional form of organization of energy markets, will reduce uncertainty factors by avoiding protectionist methods, including sanctions methods, leaving them behind the «perimeter» of macroregional borders.

Results of a sociological survey by WCIOM devoted to the study of the attitude of Russians to the idea of cooperation with the countries of the East in the new reality.