• Provide information regarding Russia's productivity growth rate and growth in manufacturing.

Include factors and incentives that could foster productivity and incentives for investment. Continued success and growth will depend on the ability to improve productivity, adapting to new technologies, which in turn for many of these emerging economies will require institutional reforms, which potentially can pose political challenges.

The following are among the best sources of free data, analysis and information on advanced and emerging economies:

• The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
• US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The World Bank
• United Nations Statistic Division (UNdata)