Russia’s external economic links—challenges and opportunities

30 oktober, 2016

Russia’s external economic links are too heavily focused on exchanging natural resources for consumption and investment goods, but oil creates too much uncertainty and is not a sustainable driver of growth for Russia or the world. What are the challenges and opportunities for growth in Russia?

SITE’s director Torbjörn Becker made a presentation "Russia’s external economic links—challenges and opportunities" at the international conference ”Evolution of International Trading System: Prospects and Challenges”. The conference was organised by the Economics Department at the Saint Petersburg State University on October 20-21.

The presentation details Russia’s oil dependence and economic links to the EU and Sweden. Presentation explained the foreign direct investment in Russia, Swedish and Russian ties and how Russia would get along without oil.

Russia’s external economic links—challenges and opportunities from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

STOCKHOLM INSTITUTE OF TRANSITION ECONOMICS

TORBJÖRN BECKER

Torbjörn Becker is a Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nine years where he became interested in international financial architecture issues, how countries can protect themselves against adverse shocks and what role IFIs could have in preventing and resolving crises.

In previous positions at the IMF, he worked on emerging markets and developing countries in Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He is a member of several boards in the public, private and academic sector in the region and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Russia’s external economic links—challenges and opportunities

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