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Seminar ”Belarus in a Slow Growth Trap: Nesting or Escaping”
June 30, 2017
Conference Hall of DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton (9 Pobediteley Av., Minsk City, Belarus)
* Seminar agenda is subject to change
Registration and coffee (8:30-9:00)
Welcoming remarks (9:00-9:15)
Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the EU Delegation to Belarus
Fionna Gibb, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Brit-ain and Northern Ireland to Belarus
Irina Tochitskaya, PhD Econ., Research Director at IPM Research center
Slow growth trap manifestations (9:15-11:15)
Ramifications of single-market focus: changing Belarus’s place in global value chains
Irina Tochitskaya, PhD Econ., Research Director at IPM Research center
Social aftermath of 2015-2016 recession: what the data of the Selective Household Living Standard Survey suggest (Available in Russian)
Gleb Shymanovich, Economist at IPM Research Center
Belarus’s economy through private business eyes: small and medium-size enterprise survey results (Available in Russian)
Igor Pelipas, PhD Econ., Head of the Supervisory Board of IPM Research Center
Coffee (11:15-11:45)
Short- and mid-terms prospects for Belarus’s economy (11:45-13:15)
Macroeconomic forecast for Belarus: how stable is the commenced recovery? (Available in Russian)
Alexander Chubrik, Director of IPM Research Center
Transforming regional policy to transit to stable growth: principal directions (Available in Russian)
Natalya Berchenko, PhD Econ., Deputy Director of Economy Research Institute under Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
Break (13:15-13:30)
Ways out of the slow growth trap: discussion (13:30-15:00)
Moderator: Dmitry Kolkin, Deputy Director of BEROC
Participants:
Maksim Yermolovich, First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Belarus
Sergey Kalechits, Vice Board Chair, National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Victor Pinigin, PhD Econ., Director of Economy Research Institute under Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
Kirill Gayduk, PhD, Country Economist of World Bank Belarus
The events are organized by IPM Research Center in partnership with the Economy Research Institute of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus and Association of European Business with the assis-tance of the European Union (International Technical Assistance Project No.2/16/000810).