The new issue is online: BRICS, official development assistance, slowbalization, and more

The eighth issue of Contemporary World Economy opens with an article by Vladimir Bartenev (HSE University), which examines the question of measurability of the official development assistance’s contribution to mitigation of political risks for FDI.

Garik Petrosyan, Irina Petrosyan, and Heghine Petrosyan (Russian-Armenian University) analyze the uneven economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across countries and identify factors affecting the size of the losses.

Ethiopian researchers Dareskedar Taye and Henok Getachew (Institute of Foreign Affairs, Addis Ababa) discuss their country’s interests in terms of joining BRICS and its experience following integration. Continuing the BRICS topic, Indian expert Raosaheb Bawaskar (Maharashtra National Law University, Water Policy Center) examines the transition of BRICS into an expanded bloc amid a changing global order.

Elena Sapir (P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University) and Alexander Vasilchenko (Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences and P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University) present the results of a comparative analysis of global trends in world trade after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.

Mariam Voskanyan and Victoriya Hayrapetyan (Russian-Armenian University) assess the food security of Armenia in the context of the structure of critical food imports and ways to reduce them.

An article by economist Alan Freeman (University of Manitoba, University of Greenwich) states the case for an independent BRICS Intellectual Property policy.

Finally, the editorial team publishes a review of the 12th Annual International Conference on the Global Economy, which was held in December 2024 by the School of World Economy, HSE University.