The World Economic Forum review dedicated to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of the future, as well as to the factors that will play a key role in economic development after the pandemic. The review answers to three key questions: what economic policy should be conducted to decrease social inequality and increase social mobility? What will be the new sources of economic growth? How success could be measured?
Already grappling with a supply glut in liquefied natural gas (LNG), global gas companies face fresh challenges due to two seismic events: the COVID-19 pandemic and the global oil price shocks. Together, these developments are set to deepen and lengthen the current imbalance between supply and demand in LNG markets, leading to a lower-for-longer price environment. As a result, up to 8% of global LNG demand could be at risk (more than 25 million tonnes per annum, or MTPA) in the near term while the low-price environment could last another one to two years.
The report by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) presents a novel, practicable and flexible growth model that will help Russian companies raise their openness to innovation.
The International Monetary Fund publishes a quarterly journal on finance, politics and economics. This issue explores these topics through the lens of COVID-19.
In this publication, the Institute of Natural Monopolies Research (IPEM) summarizes the performance of Russia’s manufacturing industries in March 2020. Against a backdrop of unfavorable global economic environment coupled with measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, demand growth was registered in low-tech industries only. In extractive industries, the drop in demand is the sharpest on record since 2009.
