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E-bulletin of IISEPS Center for Documentation, N 2, 2013 - ISSN 1822-5578 (only Russian) Content: Introduction 1. Basic trends of February 2. Chronicle of key events 3. Politics 3.1. About hungry rabbits and big money 3.2. Unitary enterprise "Belarus": an enterprise with one owner 4. Economics 4.1. Chinese braking 4.2. Unemployment decreases, wages grow 4.3. It is not too bad in this country; it is simply not good enough 5. Finances 5.1. Catch up and outdo 6. Our forecast for March 7. From the IISEPS desktop Introduction: Dear readers! Our doubt about the optimism of Minister of Economic Affairs N. Snopkov ("This year, as well as next year, the balance is going to be positive") came true. Belstat published the January merchandise trade balance on March, 4: -$ 150 million. The GDP dynamics let the minister down, too: 3.1% (January against January) instead of the planned 8-9%, achievement of which the country's main economist had no doubts about (see the December interview for the newspaper "Respublika"). On March, 1 opening the meeting of the Cabinet Council "About the results of the socio-economic development of the Republic of Belarus in the year of 2012 and the goals for the year of 2013", A. Lukashenko emphasized that in 2013, the key year of the five-year plan, "it is important to decide on the goals and having decided work in such a way so as not to be too ashamed in two or two and a half years when we gather in front of all people for the All-Belarusian People's Assembly". January results, however, leave few chances for such optimism. IISEPS executive board Complete version see Here »» |
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