The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects to start a cycle of key policy rate reduction in the second quarter of 2022. This issue was discussed at a meeting of the NBU’s Monetary Policy Committee, the central bank’s press service reported. “The NBU should be ready for a scenario in which it may have to…
On September 17, the Uzbek government adopted a resolution that provided for additional measures to reduce losses of agricultural and food products. According to the decree, a portal of the electronic agro-industrial market is set to be established within the state institution “Center for Digitalization of Agro-Industry” under the Ministry of Agriculture. The portal will…
Entrepreneurs affected by the border conflict on April 28-30 will get concessional loans at the expense of a PCR grant. This was announced at a meeting of the Committee on Budget and Finance of the Government of Kyrgyzstan. Eldiyar Doolbekov, Deputy Director of the State Agency for Budget Loan Management under the Ministry of Economy…
Turkey ($1.28 billion), Russia ($1.01 billion) and China ($941.3 million) were Georgia’s top trading partners in total external trade turnover in January-August, preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia showed. In the reporting period Georgia’s top trading partners by exports were China ($421.8 million), Russia ($377.1 million) and Azerbaijan ($347 million), while top…
The producer price index of industrial output in August increased by 1.7% MoM and by 15.5% YoY, the state agency Statistics Estonia reported. Statistics Estonia leading analyst Eveli Sokman said that the index was affected by price increases in the manufacture of wood and wood products, in electricity production and in the manufacture of metal…
In the first half of the current year, foreign direct investment in Ukraine increased by $2.7 billion compared to the same period last year, according to Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal. “According to the law on “investment nannies”, UkraineInvest has already received applications worth almost $2 billion. Agricultural processing – nine projects worth $534…
Turkey expects Ukrainian business to take more active steps to develop joint projects and the Government of Ukraine – to sign a bilateral free trade agreement. “There is a very important issue – signing the free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine,” Rusen Cetin, Chairman of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) at the Turkey-Ukraine…