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Informal sector (Economics) --- Secteur informel (Economie politique) --- Russia (Federation) --- Russie --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Russian Economy --- Unrecorded Activities
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Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, Hassan Malik narrates how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, Malik adopts a historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries. The book provides rare insights into the thinking of influential figures in world finance as they sought to navigate one of the most challenging and lucrative markets of the first modern age of globalization.Bankers and Bolsheviks reveals how a complex web of factors-from government interventions to competitive dynamics and cultural influences-drove a large inflow of capital during this tumultuous period in world history. This gripping book demonstrates how the realms of finance and politics-of bankers and Bolsheviks-grew increasingly intertwined, and how investing in Russia became a political act with unforeseen repercussions.
Finance --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) --- 1917-1921 --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- Economic conditions. --- Foreign economic relations. --- History --- 1905 Revolution. --- 1906 loan. --- 1918 Bolshevik default. --- Bolshevik Revolution. --- Bolshevik coup. --- Bolshevik ideology. --- Bolsheviks. --- First World War. --- Panic of 1907. --- Russian Empire. --- Russian Government Loan of 1906. --- Russian Revolution. --- Russian debt. --- Russian economy. --- Russian financial system. --- Russian government. --- Russian investment. --- Russian markets. --- Russian railroad construction. --- Sergei Witte. --- Trans-Siberian Railway. --- Western investment boom. --- armaments buildup. --- bankers. --- banking. --- boom. --- bust. --- cultural influence. --- debt default. --- default. --- domestic debt markets. --- domestic tensions. --- economic crisis. --- foreign bankers. --- foreign capital markets. --- foreign investors. --- geopolitics. --- government intervention. --- international capital flows. --- interrevolutionary rally. --- investment. --- investor decision making. --- loans. --- patriotism. --- political instability. --- political tensions. --- sovereign default. --- state-led industrialization. --- strategic errors. --- violence.
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This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting by the commodity boom of the early 2000s to its collapse in 2014. Richard Pomfret examines the countries' relations with external powers and the possibilities for development offered by infrastructure projects as well as rail links between China and Europe.The transition of these nations from centrally planned to market-based economic systems was essentially complete by the early 2000s, when the region experienced a massive increase in world prices for energy and mineral exports. This raised incomes in the main oil and gas exporters, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; brought more benefits to the most populous country, Uzbekistan; and left the poorest countries, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, dependent on remittances from migrant workers in oil-rich Russia and Kazakhstan. Pomfret considers the enhanced role of the Central Asian nations in the global economy and their varied ties to China, the European Union, Russia, and the United States. With improved infrastructure and connectivity between China and Europe (reflected in regular rail freight services since 2011 and China's announcement of its Belt and Road Initiative in 2013), relaxation of United Nations sanctions against Iran in 2016, and the change in Uzbekistan's presidency in late 2016, a window of opportunity appears to have opened for Central Asian countries to achieve more sustainable economic futures.
Economic development --- 2000-2099 --- Asia, Central --- Economic conditions --- 1997 Agreement on Peace and National Reconciliation. --- 1998 Russian crisis. --- Central Asia. --- Central Asian countries. --- Central Asian economies. --- China. --- China–Europe Landbridge. --- EU. --- Eurasia. --- Eurasian Economic Union. --- Europe. --- GDP. --- Kazakhstan. --- Kumtor goldmine. --- Kyrgyz Republic. --- Kyrgyz migration. --- Russia. --- Russian economy. --- Soviet economy. --- Tajikistan. --- Turkmenistan. --- USA. --- Uzbekistan. --- World Trade Organizations. --- abundant resource. --- banking crisis. --- bilateral relations. --- central planning. --- civil war. --- commodity boom. --- connectivity. --- contract enforcement. --- cotton exports. --- cotton prices. --- cotton. --- currency devaluation. --- economic development. --- economic distress. --- economic diversification. --- economic growth. --- economic liberalization. --- energy exports. --- energy prices. --- external economic powers. --- foreign exchange controls. --- foreign exchange. --- foreign policy. --- forex controls. --- gas exports. --- gas. --- global economy. --- growing economies. --- hard infrastructure. --- income inequality. --- integration. --- international trade. --- market economy. --- market-based economies. --- mineral exports. --- minerals. --- multilateralism. --- nation-building. --- national economy. --- natural resources. --- oil prices. --- oil. --- peace negotiations. --- pipeline politics. --- political transition. --- poverty. --- primary product dependence. --- private foreign investors. --- rail links. --- regional agreements. --- regional disintegration. --- resource curse. --- resources. --- rule of law. --- soft infrastructure. --- trade facilitation. --- transitional recession. --- world economy.
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