Russia's economy grew slower than analysts forecast last year, ecpanding at the weakest pace since a 2009 contraction agter record oil prices failed to offset $56.8 billion of net capital outflows and investment sagged. ... That missed the 3.6 percent median forecast of 18 analysts in a Bloomberg survey and the Economy Ministry's estimate of 3.5 percent. ... The natural gas pipeline transmission systems of the United States and Canada are highly integrated. ...

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Under the principle of "one country, two systems", the HKSAR has a high degree of legal and economic autonomy (Chan, 2001). ... In addition, China avoided direct intervention in Hong Kong's economic affairs, thus, keeping its "hands-off", "laissez-faire", policy adopted with the "one country, two systems" approach and allowing Hong Kong to manage the crisis (Hung, 2000). ...

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A quick look at these five heads would give an analyst a fair idea as to the state and direction of the economy at any point in time as consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of the total economic activity in the country. ...

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