Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko says Ukraine has suspended its large-scale privatization campaign in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine. “Funds from privatization are practically not earmarked in the national budget. By changing the budget, we have reduced the amount of revenue from privatization as much as possible, sending a signal to all investors that…
The latest outlook of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), published on June 10, predicts an 8.1% GDP decline for Latvia. At the same time, according to OECD’s latest estimates, next year Latvia’s economy will increase by 6.3%. In previous outlooks, published in November 2019, OECD estimated Latvia’s GDP might grow by 2.3%…
“Kazakhstan will set up an interdepartmental consumer protection board,” Trade and Integration Minister Bakhyt Sultanov said presenting draft law On amendments to some legislative acts of Kazakhstan on consumer protection” at a plenary session of the Kazakh Senate on June 11. One of the tools is the suggested integrated information system to accept complaints via…
Economy Ministry has proposed that the government cover accommodation costs of every third night that foreign tourists spend in the country. The measure would be “unique in Europe”, said the acting economy minister, Zygimantas Vaiciunas. “The new measure we are creating, which would in fact be rather unique in Europe, aims at promoting inbound tourism,”…
Capital investment in Ukraine in January-March fell by 35.5% after growing by 21.2% in the fourth quarter of last year, the State Statistics Service reported. In the first quarter of this year, UAH 76.914 billion of capital investment was disbursed (excluding the temporarily occupied Crimea, Sevastopol and the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions). Among…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has worsened the outlook for Ukraine’s economy in 2020. In particular, the GDP will drop from 7.7% to 8.2% as was predicted in April, the IMF said in a press release. According to the Fund, the Ukrainian GDP will start growing again in 2021. In particular, it will grow by…
In 2020, GDP is expected to decline by about 4% compared to 2019 in Kyrgyzstan, report on the monetary policy of the National Bank of the country says. Excluding enterprises developing Kumtor mine, the GDP drop in 2020 is expected to reach about 5%. According to the forecast, the largest decline could be registered in…