In Latvia, the level of producer prices in industry decreased by 2.7% YoY in August, the data of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) showed. In a press release on September 21, the CSB reported that in a monthly comparison, from July to August, the level of producer prices in Latvian industry remained the same. Prices…
Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said the healthcare spending in 2021 will grow unprecedentedly, up to 4.2% of GDP. “Healthcare is our key priority given the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing healthcare reform. Expenditures on healthcare will grow unprecedentedly, up to 4.2% of GDP, which is more than UAH 190 billion ($6.8 billion) in the…
Damage caused to the state by corruption amounted to 13.6 billion soms in 2018-2019 and eight months of 2020, The President of Kyrgyzstan, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, announced at a meeting of the Security Council. According to him, 5,827 billion soms have been returned to the state. “This, of course, is not enough, another half out of…
Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov and China’s Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong have discussed the further development of Ukrainian-Chinese cooperation in the political, economic and security spheres, noting that the trade between the two countries in 2019 amounted to $12.8 billion, the NSDC’s press service has reported. The parties…
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, about 300,000 people have been employed in Ukraine, testifying to progress in the implementation of a program to create half a million jobs. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, about 300,000 people have been employed through employment centers in agriculture, processing industry and trade sector. This can be…
More than 56% of the population made an online purchase in the last three months and spending has increased. More than half of companies, which use the Internet, are using paid-for cloud services. Newly released data from Statistics Estonia showed that 56.5% of the population aged 16-74 used e-commerce in the last three months. Compared…
Tartu has generated EUR 800,000 less income than its expenditures over the period of January-August and has reported a total revenue of EUR 124.7 million, the city’s government says, representing 71% of the amount budgeted for the year. The largest single item, at EUR 60.6-million revenue over the eight-month period, was personal income tax. The…