WHAT STEPS ARE NEEDED TO BRING RUSSIA’S STALLED ECONOMY TO A NEW PHASE OF SUSTAINED GROWTH?

WHAT STEPS ARE NEEDED TO BRING RUSSIA’S STALLED ECONOMY TO A NEW PHASE OF SUSTAINED GROWTH?

22 May, 14:00–15:15


Over the past decade, a formula of resource-led exports coupled with a burgeoning middle class and underpinned by ample consumer finance has produced robust and sustained economic expansion. However, the recent slowdown has called into question if and how Russia should restructure its economy to deliver the next generation of growth.













Broadcast

Key moments

“The domestic market is the main driver of any economy.”
Kirill Androsov
“I see a huge spirit and skill and commitment to entrepreneurship in Russia.”
Lord Mandelson
“To move further, to identify labour and to increase productivity, we need external investment that is linked with basic technological modernisation.”
Vladislav Soloviev
“It is a task for the government to increase financial literacy among the population.”
Yury Isaev
“In order for the middle class in Russia to develop, people must have interesting, professional jobs. (…) In Russia, there is an unprecedented opportunity to become one of the global hubs for exporting intellectual services.”
Sergey Kravchenko