Economy

Belarus in the SCO: strategic perspective and reasonable alternative

02 august 2024
Petrochemistry
Having methodically and responsibly passed almost 15 years, Belarus has become the tenth member of the SCO (along with India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). In 2023, the member states accounted for 70.4% of the total trade turnover of Belarus, and by the end of January-April 2024 – 71.4%. ...

The economic effect is an indicator of the effectiveness of digitalization

15 december 2023
Belarus today
Subject to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 381 "On digital development", assessment of digitalization of industries and regions will be implemented based on digital development indices, which will be publicly available in the information system "Showcase of Digital Projects". It will also contain information about ongoing pilot projects in the field of digit...

Belarus–Zimbabwe trade and economic relations have significantly intensified

10 november 2023
Belarus today
Close perspectives of the far arc Agreements in action: after the Belarusian President's historic visit to Zimbabwe, trade and economic relations between Belarus and Zimbabwe have significantly intensified ...

The analyst explains: The results of the economy of the Vitebsk region for 9 months of 2023...

30 october 2023
Vitbichi
Data published on the socio-economic development of the regions for the first nine months of 2023. What is to be paid attention? Sergey Kochetov, Head of Social and Economic Issues Group of the Vitbichi newspaper, talks with Andrei Mishin, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, about the socio-economic development of the region following the first nine months of...

The analyst explains: Executing the consolidated budget of the region and local budgets for the firs...

18 august 2023
Vitbichi
The budget has its own income and there is a surplus August is traditionally the time for summing up the interim results of the year in socio-economic terms. An important socially significant moment is the publication of data on executing the consolidated budget of the region and local budgets. Every citizen can find this information on the official websites of the district (municipa...

There has been an increase since March: experts talk about the economy development in the first half...

11 august 2023
Belarus today
Last Tuesday, meeting of the Council of Ministers considered the economy results for the first half of the year. It is noted that it has reached positive annual growth rates. The GDP has increased, the demand for Belarusian products in foreign markets is growing. At the same time, the inflation has decreased significantly. This contributes to the real growth of wages and disposable in...

BISR analyst on economic aspects of the national security of Belarus

07 april 2023
Belarus today
Economy – the basis of independence of any state ...

Analyst: Mogilev region produced import-substituting products significantly more than planned...

06 april 2023
BELTA
Mogilev region produced $8 million more import-substituting products than planned. This was stated by Oleg Koropov, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (Mogilev Region branch) in an interview with BelTA. The BISR analyst recalled the words from the President's Address that "a socially-oriented economy has been and remains the foundation of the Belarusian stateho...

Key points of regional growth: import substitution, export, scientific potential

23 march 2023
Belarus today
Addresses for new technologies The sanctions policy against our state has sharply raised the issue of technological sovereignty. Due to the insignificant volume of the Belarusian market, limited material (financial) and human resources, it is more difficult to achieve it than for other countries. In this circumstances, direct cooperation with the Russian Federation plays an important...

The road to the infernal unknown is paved with good intentions

25 august 2022
Center for Statistical Estimates and Forecasts
"...The innovation of sanctions was to rely on economic total war to intimidate peoples into restraining their princes..." from the book "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" ...

How Western sanctions in a moment became a threat of world hunger

08 june 2022
Belarus today
The Phantom of Disaster Predictions of experts for the near future are getting darker. The world world is facing a global food crisis and hunger unseen since the WWII. And this is not one more scenario of some Hollywood horror movie, but a reality that tens of thousands of people in Africa and the Middle East have to accept. In won't be long before the problem affects ordinary Europ...

Global geopolitics and geo-economics keeps turning towards Asia

13 may 2022
Belarus today
The "Pivot to Asia" as a breakdown of patterns As the Ukrainian crisis escalates, global geopolitics and geo-economics keeps turning towards Asia. Although by itself this factor does not determine processes, but is a catalyst to them. In any case, what is happening should be considered as a breaking of old global architecture of the Yalta-Potsdam era and building a new one, the name ...