Monthly Report No. 10/2016
Stephan Barisitz, Mahdi Ghodsi, Peter Havlik and Waltraut Urban
wiiw Monthly Report No. 10, October 2016
47 pages including 1 Table, 24 Figures and 3 Maps
- Graph of the month: China’s New Silk Road: the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy (p. 1)
- Opinion corner: What is the role of railway transport in Iran in the efforts to launch a New Silk Road? (by Mahdi Ghodsi; pp. 2-4)
- Silk Road cycles over about two millennia (by Stephan Barisitz; pp. 5-9)
- The New Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (by Waltraut Urban; pp. 10-16)
- Russia, Eurasia and the Silk Road (by Peter Havlik; pp. 17-23)
- Recommended reading (p. 24)
- Statistical Annex: Monthly and quarterly statistics for Central, East and Southeast Europe (pp. 25-46)
Reference to wiiw databases: wiiw Annual Database, wiiw Monthly Database
Keywords: Iran, Silk Road, railways, China, Europe, Asia, Eurasia
Countries covered: Asia, China, European Union, Iran, New EU Member States, Russia, Wider Europe
Research Areas: International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI