Opinion
COMMENT: Some key macroeconomic indicators for Romania during the pandemic times
Even before the crisis, the Romanian macroeconomic equilibria were very fragile. Now Romania needs a set of measures to relaunch the economy and put it on a better footing for the future.
STOLYPIN: Coronavirus and Kremlin stressing Russia’s elite social contract
To some, under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vladimir Putin’s much-vaunted ‘power vertical’ is rotating, turning on its head. Power has shifted from the centre to the regions
LONG READ: A thinking exercise on Turkey and its lira
Erdogan administration officials are working around the clock trying to convince the world the currency can defy gravity. Nothing adds up in their favour. The worry is that they will end up trying to defy voters instead.
COMMENT: Waking Sleeping Beauty: shaking up Uzbekistan’s banking sector
Whilst, the world was in a lockdown, the government of Uzbekistan has been busy reforming the banking sector. The government announced a detailed banking reform strategy for 2020-2025 to transform the sector
COMMENT: Will Central Europe’s economic recovery be stymied by populist banking laws?
Multiple financial fires raging across Central and Eastern Europe could have been put out had EU institutions responded sooner to the populist lawfare banks have been put through over the past few years.
OPINION: Why the Russian economy will inevitably become green after the COVID-19 epidemic is over
Investors are “risk on” again thanks to the coronavirus, but the climate crisis has not gone away, nor has work to build a financial green infrastructure stopped. Russian companies will inevitably join the fray and are already taking action
ING: Russia - The curious case of FX interventions
The Central Bank of Russia will make FX sales of more than $2.6bn in May, lowering the risks of a weaker ruble.
ING: Central and Eastern Europe’s fiscal and monetary response to COVID-19
What is behind the magic of high numbers of anti-crisis programmes to combat the economic fallout from COVID-19? Some CEE countries can afford policy responses like developed markets as their central banks kick-start QE support programmes.
OPINION: Post-COVID recessions bring risk of turbulent spring
Governments that failed to rise to the crisis — through denial, dismissing the dangers or simply incompetence, resulting in unnecessary deaths and economic hardship — should fear their day of reckoning.
AFC Capital: Uzbekistan leads regionalization that is the new globalization
Is regionalization the new globalization? Stalin industrialised Uzbekistan at a high cost, but that gave the country a platform to become a regional leader as regionalisation becomes the new globalisation
TURKEY INSIGHT: The lira has belly-flopped and London, it is your fault
Government media point finger at foreign market players as Turkish currency falls to all-time low. Banking watchdog issues wide-ranging regulation on manipulative trading. Critics say it has no parallel anywhere else in the world.