Tajikistan: coal output up in H1 2016

Over the first six months of this year, Tajikistan has produced more than 500,000 tons of coal, up by 177,000 tons YoY, according to the Ministry of Energy and New Technologies (MoINT). An official source at a MoINT says Tajikistan is currently producing up to 7,000 tons of coal per day. Last year, Tajikistan reportedly…

Tajikistan investment portfolio includes 70 projects totaling $2.84 billion

Tajikistan’s investment portfolio now includes 70 projects totaling 22.3 billion somoni (equivalent to $2.84 billion), according to the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest). Tajikistan’s investment portfolio, in particular, includes 31 grant-based projects, 18 loan-based projects and 21 mixed-finance projects. Total volume of grant financing has reportedly amounted to 9.8 billion somoni…

Kazakhstan: trade companies’ revenues up

Revenues of Kazakhstan’s trade companies from main activity increased up to 2.8 trillion Kazakh tenges in Q1 2016, as compared to 2.1 trillion tenges in the same period of 2015. Tenge’s devaluation gave a certain support to this process. Revenues of Kazakhstan’s small enterprises from main activity increased by 824 billion tenges in Q1 YoY,…