The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revised the real world GDP growth for 2017 by 0.1% as compared to September estimations to 3.3%, according to OECD November Global Economic Outlook. The forecasts for 2016 were kept at 2.9%. In 2015 the world real GDP growth totaled 3.1%. The world GDP growth is…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) has expanded its fleet with another Boeing 737-800 NG. According to the press service of the company, the delivery of another airplane was the final stage of the program of the fleet expansion and improving in 2016. The Boeing 737-800 NG produced in 2009 with a passenger capacity of 186…
Shareholders of Azerbaijan’s NIKOIL Bank CJSC will discuss the change of composition of the bank’s Supervisory Board on January 16, 2017. During the shareholders’ meeting to be held in Moscow they will also discuss the change of composition of the bank’s Audit Committee and giving premiums to its members. Currently, NIKOIL Bank’s Supervisory Board is…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved of a $154 million loan to enhance horticulture value chain development in all 12 regions of Uzbekistan and the autonomous region of Republic of Karakalpakstan. “ADB’s support will help increase access to long-term financing for horticulture farmers and enterprises along the horticulture value chain”, Bui Minh Giap, senior…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) has allowed ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Sergiy Tigipko, the founder and major shareholder of TAS Group, to indirectly acquire Universal Bank (Kyiv) through Bailican Limited (Cyprus). Universal Bank was founded in 1994. The largest shareholder of the bank as of the beginning of 2016 was ERB New…
By 2050 the annual production of grain crops in Ukraine will total nearly 90 million tons, including nearly 50 million tons of grains for exports, the advisor to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Vladyslava Rutytska declared. According to her, China will become the main country-importer of Ukrainian grains. Nearly one half…
According to official information, Ukraine exported some 1355.3 KMT of corn in October, up by 3% YoY (1314.8 KMT). Nonetheless, Ukrainian corn exports did lag 3.6% behind 2015 in the first two months of the season. Ukraine supplied 1411.9 KMT of corn to foreign markets in September-October (1465.1 KMT at the same time in MY…