Estonia has faced a shortage of family practitioners for a while now and the Health Board is looking for doctors to fill vacant positions, as the number of elderly doctors increases. Right now, the Estonia Health Board is looking for new family doctors in the capital Tallinn, in the towns of Keila and Elva and…
Banks in Latvia have implemented numerous changes to improve their internal control systems, as reported by the Finance and Capital Market Commission (FKTK). In 2020, FKTK performed 12 inspections in the field of money laundering and terrorism financing prevention. While in previous years most inspections concluded with administrative cases and penalties, in 2020 FKTK had…
A pilot project on organic agriculture starts in two villages of Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, Director of the Department of Organic Agriculture Baktygul Askeralieva has announced. “Law on organic agriculture came into effect in 2019. We have developed organic and environmental standards. The project was developed in the same year, which was supported by donors.…
Uzbekistan’s capital city of Tashkent plans to spend $3.9 million towards the procurement of electric buses, the press service of the Ministry of Transport has reported. The project aims at improving the quality of the environment by introducing accelerated use of electric transport in urban public transport on the example of the capital. Further, this…
Over the first six months of 2021, eleven export markets opened for Ukrainian producers, almost as many as in 2020 when 12 export markets opened. As the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection informs, the markets of Lebanon, Japan, Argentina, Libya and Kuwait have opened for Ukrainian producers of milk and…
Five out of ten members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) believe that the key policy rate should be further raised this year. “The NBU will have to further raise the key policy rate this year to ensure that inflation returns to its 5% target in 2022, five…
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has maintained Latvia’s GDP outlook for 2021 unchanged. The country’s economic growth is expected to be the most rapid among the Baltic States. The bank’s latest outlook estimates Latvia’s economic growth to reach 3.5% this year. Commenting on this year’s outlook, EBRD notes that the slow speed of…