Russia–Africa Forum Participants Address Investments in the Continent

The rating agency Expert RA presents a study on the state of the residential real estate sector after a reform. The publication provides data on construction volumes in Russia, fluctuations in demand, developers’ entry into the bond market, etc.

Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports by the World Bank Group investigating the regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The study covers 190 economies.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, TUI, exclusively for SPIEF.

Global growth is projected at — 4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast.