Preprint publication: “The post-shock growth of the Russian economy. The experience of the 1998 and 2008 crises and a look into the future”
The work was published in the WP3 series "Labor market issues" and studies the global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Estimates suggest Russian GDP in 2020 will fall by 2–8%, meaning the current crisis may be more severe than the crises of 1998 and 2008. In the coming years, the Russian economy will have to recover and enter a new long-term growth trajectory. What sources and sectors can make this happen?
Reports of the Russia KLEMS group at the session " Economics of income and wealth"
The session was held at HSE University at the XXI April Conference in cooperation with the International Association for Income and Wealth Research (IARIW) and with the support of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
New release of Russia KLEMS 2019 data published
On December 3, a Russia KLEMS seminar was held for the presentation of the new data release. The indicators include time series for 34 types of activities of the Russian classification of economic activities (OKVED-1) for the period 1995-2016. New indicators have been added since the previous release in March 2017: volume indices of information and communication capital services and volume indices of labor services which take into account changes in the quality of the workforce. Russia KLEMS 2019 is adapted to the official indicators of the 1993 SNA. The adaptation of Russia KLEMS to the 2008 SNA requirements will be made in the December 2020 release.
The World Bank on how rich Russia is
World Bank Report “How Wealthy is Russia? Measuring Russia’s Comprehensive Wealth from 2000-2017”. The report uses capital stock data from Russia KLEMS
Report: “Sources of economic growth in the sectors of the economy of the USSR and the Soviet republics in 1950-1990”
Ilya Voskoboynikov presented the report, on December 4, 2019, at a meeting of the Center for Economic History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of History. The work was part of two projects of HSE University—Russia KLEMS and “Long-term economic growth and structural changes in the USSR and the CIS since 1960”.
Systemic Contribution of Intangible Assets to Long-term Growth of the Russian Economy
The report “The Systemic Contribution of Intangible Assets to the Long-term Growth of the Russian Economy” was presented by its author, Ksenia Bobyleva, at the international conference “Experiences and challenges in the study of income and well-being in Eastern Europe and the CIS”.