At the end of November, the registered level of unemployment in Latvia was 7.4% of economically active population, which was as much as the month prior, according to information from the State Employment Agency (NVA). At the end of November, NVA had 67,518 unemployed people registered, up by 394 people MoM, when 67,124 unemployed people…
Job vacancies fell by 27% YoY in the third quarter of 2020, state agency Statistics Estonia said. There were 8,689 job vacancies in Q3, with education (1,501), manufacturing (1,202) and retail (1,158) making up the largest sectors. Occupied and vacant posts combined came to 607,125, the agency added, making the vacancy rate 1.4%. Over 40%…
A set of issues on implementation of joint investment projects between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will be considered until December 25. This was agreed at a meeting of the acting Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Artem Novikov with the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sardor…
On December 8, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry raised UAH 15.96 billion towards the state budget as a result of auctions on the placement of domestic government bonds, the ministry’s press service wrote on Facebook. The Finance Ministry offered investors seven issues of hryvnia-denominated bonds, with a maturity of three months, six months, one year, two…
While the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.1% MoM in November, it fell by 1.1% YoY, state agency Statistics Estonia reported. Falling fuel prices in part resulted from diesel excise duty cuts earlier in the year. A fall in electricity prices also made its effects known. Goods cost 1.2% less in November then in…
The Ukrainian government’s investment promotion office UkraineInvest will hold an online international conference for investors on December 11. “On December 11, the first annual international conference ‘Ukraine: Investment Harbor in the Time of Change’ will be held, organized by the government’s investment promotion office UkraineInvest,” reads a report posted on the Government portal. The event…
The State Forestry Committee of Uzbekistan plans to attract carbon credits to finance the creation of forest plantations, National expert on drought in Uzbekistan Sobirjon Umarov has said, commenting on the development of the forestry industry in Uzbekistan. A carbon credit is a permit that allows the company that holds it to emit a certain…