... targeted response to the global slowdown. At the same time, regional integration organizations/arrangements could also provide their anti-crisis contribution via refraining from protectionist measures and coordinating liberalization initiatives with the WTO. The developing countries in the coming years could make a lasting and crucial contribution to making the G20 a more effective and inclusive global anti-crisis mechanism.
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... the educational element in the services supplied by corporates and most notably the financial industry. The Central Bank in Russia and the Ministry of Finance are according notable importance to issues related to raising the level of financial literacy ... ... regional support policies. The countries’ trade policy could also be significantly affected as the share of trade disputes in the WTO and defensive measures related to environmental standards (green protectionism) could increase significantly in the coming ...
... which was expanding rapidly in the 1990s. The launching of the National projects in the past several years was designed to boost Russia’s growth rates, which after the 2014 crisis consistently underperformed those of the world economy. Arguably at the level ... ... (the case of the US and the WHO) as well as further progression of the stalemate in such international organisations as the WTO (the case of the dispute settlement body and the reform of the WTO). One of the possible innovative responses to the current ...
... unlikely to be unconditionally receptive of Washington’s demands that current privileges for developing countries in the WTO be abolished. In contrast, China will rather put forward the need to fight protectionism, which is a threat to free trade.
As for Russia, it wholeheartedly supports the idea of reforming the WTO. President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin recently declared this stance. Russia’s trade diplomacy has quite good positions to take an active part in the process.
In conclusion, we need to emphasize that the nascent ...
... complements it.
AP /EPA / Maxim Shipenkov
Ivan Timofeev, Elena Alekseenkova:
Eurasia in Russian Foreign Policy: Interests,
Opportunities and Constraints
Given these circumstances, Russia’s warily negative attitude towards TPP looks a bit odd. Russia consistently focuses its efforts on working within the WTO exclusively and it underestimates the TPP as one of many regional free trade agreements. However, the Trans-Pacific Partnership should not be regarded as a run-of-the-mill regional trade agreement. With the failure of the Doha round of the WTO talks,...
... democratization, rather than its EEU integration that stand in the way.
In order to maintain the competitiveness of Belarusian goods, Minsk is keen to see restrictions on the energy market lifted and removed.
Arseny Sivitski:
Belarus is not yet a WTO member, while Russia joined in 2012, and Kazakhstan accession negotiations in 2015. Accordingly, the EEU was created with due regard to the principles and rules of the WTO. Paradoxically, Belarus is forced to comply in its activities within the EEU with WTO rules even ...
... cause trade to grow by USD 1 trillion.
WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo argues that the WTO is in a good position to uphold the true meaning of “world” in its title, since this time the outcome of the conference will benefit all WTO members. They are in Russia’s interests, too, since, for Russia, participation in international economic institutions is a zero-option factor of economic growth and enhanced political influence. However, broadly speaking, membership in a major international organization ...
... It requires reduce of existing control mechanisms, which manage the import, in an effort to put the interests of protection of Russian economy’s priority sectors in the center of our efforts.
RIAC will consider problems, arising from the entry of Russia to the WTO, as a priority in the planning and implementation of scientific and analytical, information and education projects.
... change threatens Russian pig breeding with such a catastrophe (farmers do not seem to be strongly supported by governments in the Baltic States, while fuels and lubricants are more expensive there than in Russia), but this is quite in the spirit of the WTO. However, Russia is able to support its producers since Russian negotiators have dickered for such right.
Part of a plan to modernise economy and society
And, finally, there is another important moment to mention. Russia’s accession to the WTO is a sort of a ...
