A significant increase in the minimum wage in Ukraine may affect macroeconomic indicators and inflation in general, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Deputy NBU Governor Dmytro Sologub has said. “If there is an increase in the minimum wage and it is significant enough, it will affect macroeconomic indicators, budget indicators, inflation and…
Baiterek Holding through its subsidiaries – KazakhExport and the Development Bank of Kazakhstan – continues to actively support Kazakh exporters. Over six months of 2020, the export insurance company KazakhExport provided insurance support to 49 exporters (13 of which received support for the first time) in the amount of KZT 26.4 billion. In 2019, the…
The government is expecting a 3% budget deficit due to the impact of the coronavirus and the crisis, which followed it, Dmitri Jegorov, undersecretary of Tax and Customs Policy at the Ministry of Finance, has said. Jegorov said: “We reckon with a fall of 3% in the government sector, which means hundreds of millions of…
In May, migrants transferred $165.3 million to Kyrgyzstan, twice as much as in April, the National Bank reported. Compared to May 2019, the figure decreased by $29 million, or by 15%. Compared with December 2019, the decrease is $49.6 million, or 23%. In 5 months, at least $699.32 million have been transferred to the republic.…
The Finance Ministry expects that a decline in the Ukrainian economy will be less than earlier predicted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has stated. “We rely on the forecast of the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture. A decline is projected at 4.8% of GDP. There is every…
According to the results of the first half of 2020, Kazakhstan’s GDP has decreased by 1.8%, while the forecast was -1.5%. This is due to the downturn in the service sector, despite the relaxation of quarantine measures and the opening of trade and catering facilities from mid-May. According to the National Bank, such industries, as…
The National Bank of Kazakhstan has made an unplanned decision to reduce the base rate to the level of 9% per annum with the expansion of the corridor to +/- 1.5%. Consequently, the rate for the liquidity provision standing facilities is 10.5% and for the liquidity withdrawal standing facilities – 7.5%. The decrease in the…