It is noted that the forecast for 2020 is maintained at 1.9%.
For the third time, the fund has worsened the forecast for economic growth in Russia for the current year. Previous revisions were in July and January (by 0.4 and 0.2 percentage points, respectively).
In early October, the World Bank predicted a slowdown in the Russian economy to 1% from 1.2% in 2019.