The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has kept the forecast for GDP growth in Turkmenistan at 6.5%, according to the “Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update: Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnership”. According to the bank’s forecast, the economy of Turkmenistan will grow by 6.5% in 2018. Meanwhile, the ADB lowered its forecast for inflation in Turkmenistan for…
DetailsPJSC Kyivkhlib, the largest Kyiv producer of bread and bakery goods, in 2017 began to supply its own products to the United States. “We export long-term storage products – gingerbread, straws, dry bread crumbs, cracker rings. Most of all we ship to Germany. We supply products to Central Asia, the Baltic States, Israel, and Canada.…
DetailsPrime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman believes the goal for 2018 is to achieve economic growth in the amount of 5% of GDP. “We need a quality economic environment, we need investments that will allow us to grow rapidly in 2018. Our goal is more than 5% of GDP. This is what is achievable, something…
DetailsAccording to the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in August the production of wheat flour in the country increased by 6% MoM and totaled 291.5 thousand tons, which broke a record for the month. In the reporting month Kazakhstan produced 317.8 thousand tons of flour from grain…
DetailsThe Estonian state-owned port company Port of Tallinn is planning on launching the first vehicle gateways outfitted with automatic license plate recognition as part of its EUR 7 million project to upgrade gates and waiting areas in Tallinn’s Old City Harbor. The Port of Tallinn will implement the Smart Port concept in Old City Harbor,…
DetailsThe Riigikogu has ratified the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which will give European companies the opportunity to operate under the same competition conditions as Canadian firms. 66 members of the Riigikogu voted in favor of the motion and 1 was against, according to a Riigikogu press release. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs…
DetailsCompared to July, the level of construction costs in Latvia grew by 0.1% in August. Maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment rose by 0.4%, labor remuneration of workers decreased by 0.1%, whereas prices of building materials did not change significantly. Compared to August 2016, construction costs increased by 2.3%. Labor remuneration of workers…
DetailsThe Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer BelAZ and the electric motors manufacturer OOO Sibelektroprivod signed an agreement on strategic partnership in Novosibirsk. The two companies will continue working together as part of the joint project aimed at creating an electric traction drive for BelAZ dump trucks with the carrying capacity of 90 tons. Apart from that,…
DetailsThe level of inflation in Ukraine at the end of 2017 may be higher than the current forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine at 9.1%, which may force the NBU to apply a more stringent monetary policy, reads a statement on the central bank’s website referring to Deputy NBU Governor Dmytro Solohub. During a…
DetailsAccording to the official statistics figures, in July-August of the season-2017-2018 Ukraine imported 4.2 thousand tons of rye flour, down 2.1-fold YoY (8.8 thousand tons). At the same time, Belarus supplied almost all volumes of the reporting product on the Ukrainian market. As a reminder, in 2016-2017 MY Ukraine purchased 36.8 thousand tons of rye…
DetailsThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects that Azerbaijan’s GDP growth will be 1% in 2018, according to the “Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update: Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnership”. Azerbaijan’s GDP growth rate decreased by 3.8% in 2016. The ADB expects that the recession will continue in 2017, but its pace will slow down. Thus, according…
DetailsEconomy of Turkmenistan should be based on market relations, the country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a government meeting. The draft state budget for 2018 was on the agenda of the meeting. The Turkmen president noted that during the draft state budget’s preparation, special attention should be paid to increasing the volume of loan funds…
DetailsThe Estonian government at an extraordinary meeting on September 27 approved the 2018 state budget bill, which set out the first ever Estonian state budget to exceed EUR 10 billion. This marks the first full-length budget of the coalition government that took office in November 2016. The activities financed from the budget support the four…
DetailsPrices of bread made of rye and wheat in Ukraine rose by 20.9% YoY in September, according to a member of the Economic Discussion Club Oleh Pendzin. “Prices of first-grade flour increased by 12% from September 2016 to September 2017, those of rye flour climbed by 4.5%, while the price of bread made from first-grade…
DetailsTurkmenistan has proposed to host a summit of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) founding state heads in 2018. Ashgabat’s Permanent Representative to the UN Aksoltan Atayeva, addressing a general political discussion at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, called on the international community to more actively address environmental issues,…
DetailsThe funds in the amount of $1.32 billion from placing sovereign eurobonds due in 2032 for $3 billion were sent to the account of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, the Finance Ministry has reported on its website. The ministry said that the deal to purchase eurobonds due in 2019 and 2020 for $1.68 billion…
DetailsAccording to the USDA estimates, the global crop of barley will be below its global consumption for a second season in a row. This trend will lead to a substantial decrease in barley stocks in the world. Global barley inventories are expected to shrink to a 34-year low of 18.6 MMT by the end of…
DetailsTajikistan’s draft state budget for 2018 was coordinated with the profile departments and submitted for consideration to the Standing Committee on Budget under the government of Tajikistan. After being studied and approved by the government, the draft state budget will be sent to the lower house of parliament for approval. The revenue part of the…
DetailsAccording to the Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan’s Economy Ministry, vegoil production in the country reached a record 349.1 KMT in the 2016-2017 season, up by 17% YoY. 29.2 KMT of vegoil was produced in Kazakhstan in August, up by 24% YoY and by 3% MoM. Output of sunseed, linseed and soybean oils closed the season…
DetailsOrganizations representing haulers in Estonia have issued a joint statement to two standing committees of the Riigikogu urging them to discuss the situation of the road haulage sector, as the country has lost an estimated EUR 50 million in tax revenue due to higher fuel duties this year. As a result of decisions made by…
DetailsPrices of tickets for flights of the Latvian national airBaltic airline may decline somewhat next year, says airBaltic CEO Martin Gauss. He explains that this year’s prices have declined somewhat, and he predicts this tendency may continue next year as well, but only if positions of different costs remain the same. If oil prices and…
DetailsAn auction for placement of short-term notes worth 200 million manats of Azerbaijan’s Central Bank (CBA) will be held at the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) on September 27, the BSE said. Some 2 million notes at a par value of 100 manats each and maturity period of 28 days will be put up for auction.…
DetailsTIU (Canada) plans to invest EUR 94 million in the construction of five solar power plants in Ukraine, the company’s press service has reported. The company intends in autumn this year to complete the construction of the first station worth EUR 14 million with a capacity of 10.5 MW in the territory of Nikopol Ferroalloys…
DetailsThe government of Ukraine has provided in the draft state budget for next year UAH 44 billion (about $1.68 billion) for the construction and repair of roads and additional UAH 4 billion (about $150 million) for two large-scale projects, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said. “This year, we have invested UAH 30 billion in the…
DetailsFrom October 2016 to July 2017, the trade turnover between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has more than doubled, according to the Eurasian Economic Commission’s press service. According to the Commission, since the Free Trade Agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Vietnam came into force, in October 2016…
DetailsArmenia has joined the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless (electronic) Trade in Asia and the Pacific. The corresponding document was signed by foreign minister Edward Nalbandian on the sidelines of the 72nd session of UN General Assembly on September 22. E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting…
DetailsPrime Minister Juri Ratas and European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport Violeta Bulc met to discuss how the funding of transport infrastructure might continue in the EU beginning in 2021. “Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has so far been very successful. Without cross-border infrastructure Europe cannot talk about an internal market and fundamental freedoms. Due to…
Details564 fuel bases and coal sales points were opened in Kyrgyzstan, the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported. 30 coal sales points were opened in Chui region. Fuel is sold at 3,400-4,100 soms. It should be noted that last year the cost of coal was much lower – 2,700-2,800 soms per ton.…
DetailsUkrainian government considers machine-building one of the most important integrated industries on which Ukraine’s further economic success depends, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said in his greeting address on the occasion of Machine Engineers Day, the government press service reports. “Ukraine’s considerably experienced machine engineers develop and design complex systems and devices: home appliances and radio…
DetailsShadow economy in Ukraine fell by 6% YoY in the first quarter of 2017, to 37% of GDP, according to the analytical report published on the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry’s website. The ministry noted that the de-shadowing stemmed directly from ensuring macroeconomic stabilization and economic growth, wage growth against the backdrop of reducing…
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