The draft state budget for 2022 provides for UAH 3 billion for the program to support Ukrainian entrepreneurs “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%”, the Finance Ministry has written on its Facebook page. “The draft budget for 2022 is an investment in people, the country and the future. One of the priorities of the budget is the…
The draft state budget for 2022 envisages 21% of expenditures on the security and defense sector, to the Minister of Finance, Serhiy Marchenko has said. In total, UAH 319.4 billion will be spent on national security and defense, which corresponds to 5.95% of GDP. “These are expenditures within budget programs run by the Ministry of…
People struggling to pay their heating bills will be offered financial assistance, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on September 21. The government will take into account the rising heating costs, which are due to grow by more than 50% for households, and “it will be reflected in the budget”, the prime minister told reporters. Price…
In August, actual unemployment rate comprised 6.9%, down by 0.6% MoM. The actual unemployment rate in the country has not been this low since December 2019 (6.6%). The unemployment rate for females decreased by 0.4%, to 5.7% in August, and for males by 0.7%, to 8.1%, according to Data of the Labor Force Survey conducted…
Opposition parties are calling on the government to help mitigate the effects of rising electricity prices after new records were set several times last week. Last week, the government said it did not have plans to control rising prices. Both Isamaa and the Social Democratic Party (SDE) initiated bills on September 20 to lower the…
It is proposed to double the size of the authorized capital of pawnshops – from 500,000 to 1,000,000 soms. The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Kyrgyzstan submitted the corresponding amendments to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers for public discussion. The ministry noted that the licensing of pawnshops began in July 2017. Then…
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the OPEC Fund for International Development are set to help Uzbekistan with the development of rural settlements and allocate loans worth $200 million and $75 million, respectively. According to a recent decree inked by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan’s contribution to projects in rural areas would comprise $60 million. Projects…