Uzbekistan’s northeastern Jizzakh region will see the implementation of more than 500 projects worth over $3.4 billion until the end of the year. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev reviewed the projects on February 15. The total annual volume of new production facilities is to amount to $2.4 billion, with 23,000 new jobs to be created. The projects…
The Director-General of International Affairs of Ministry of Cooperative, Labor and Social Welfare said that Iran and Tajikistan would expand relations in the fields of work, employment and technical and vocational education. Although Iran and Tajikistan do not share a common border, Tajiks and Iranians share a century-old common civilization, history, culture and language, Ali…
On February 15, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Qatar Andrii Kuzmenko held a meeting with Minister of Transport and Communications of the State of Qatar H.E. Jassim Al Sulaiti. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Embassy in the State of Qatar. During the meeting, the parties discussed a wide range of issues of…
Unemployment rose 16,000 to 47,900, or by 6.8%, between 2019 and 2020, state agency Statistics Estonia reported, with short-term (less than half a year unemployed) joblessness making up the bulk of that figure. Labor force participation rate stood at 71.6%, while the employment rate was 66.7%. Katriin Polluaar, analyst at Statistics Estonia, said the majority…
Estonia’s economy will grow by 2.6 % in 2021, the European Commission has forecast. The figures represent a climb-down from 6.2% predicted for 2021 last summer, and also depends on a gradual reduction in coronavirus restrictions. The commission said last year the economy contracted by 2.9%, again a lower figure than forecast in summer 2020,…
Only 15.7 billion soms of state investments were used in Kyrgyzstan in 2020 with the plan of 18.6 billion that amounted to 83%. The volume of spent funds to the originally approved plan was only 67%. The Prime Minister Ulukbek Maripov noted that over the past six years, there had been a weak use of…
An online conference between H.E. Sheikh Ali Alwaleed Al Thani, Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) of Qatar, and UkraineInvest Executive Director Serhiy Tsivkach has taken place. The meeting was initiated by the Embassy of Ukraine in the State of Qatar. During the event, the parties exchanged views on the further development…