On 4 May 2017 Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenka declared that Belarus plans to gain approximately $50bn in exports off goods produced in the Great Stone industrial park.

Dzmitry Kruk presented the research ¨Macroeconomic environment and policy dilemmas¨

EBRD’s Chief Economist Sergei Guriev presented Transition Report. This event was organized by EBRD and BEROC.

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) organized a presentation of a publication "The Belarus Economy: The Challenges of Stalled Reforms".