OGResearch Macro Portal Newsletter -- February 2024

 

February 1, 2024

Armenia

  • GDP growth will remain solid in 2024 amid positive RU-UA war externalities and pushed up demand from Nagorno-Karabakh refugees
  • Inflation will bounce back quickly with strong demand pressures still present
  • Dram will moderately depreciate as external inflows normalize

Kyrgyzstan

  • Kyrgyzstan continues to benefit from rerouting of Russian foreign trade
  • Strong demand and administered price increases will keep inflation high in 2024
  • The som will depreciate when the foreign trade normalizes and the ruble weakens

Tajikistan

  • Benefits of positive spillovers from the RU-UA war will persist in the next few years
  • Inflation is will increase in 2024 driven by strong demand
  • Depreciation will accelerate alongside a weakening ruble

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