Fixed Investments in 2017: Growth Onset

Olga Berezinskaya – Research fellow of the Center of Structural Research, Institute for Applied Economic Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Research fellow of the Department for Financial Studies of the Gaidar Institute. Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Andrey Kosarev – Leading Research fellow of the Center of Structural Research, Institute for Applied Economic Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

After three-year contraction, fixed investments in 2017 moved up by 4.4%. At the same time, Rosstat revised downwards 2016 data—fixed investment contraction constituted merely 0.2 percent (previously 0.9 percent).

Key words: fixed investments, sources of fixed investments, volume and structure of investment, resource constraints.