“As part of the Employment Roadmap and other state programs, exclusive of Yenbek productive employment and mass entrepreneurship development state program, Kazakhstan created 196,400 workplaces,” Labor and Social Protection Minister Birzhan Nurymbetov told the Government meeting. According to him, 5,313 projects are being realized under the Employment Roadmap, 103,000 jobs have been created. 41,300 workplaces…
Ukraine’s national budget in January-May received UAH 381.75 billion ($14.2 billion) of revenues, down by UAH 50.256 billion ($1.88 billion) or 11.6% from the target, according to the website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine. Revenues received for the specified period are 2.4% lower YoY. In May, the state budget received UAH 66.903 billion…
Economy Minister Natia Turnava said the economy was starting to reopen, as the government was successfully containing the spread of the coronavirus. Visiting a factory of electric heaters in Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi, Minister Turnava said particular attention was now being paid to companies, which had been established by foreign investors. Atlantic Georgia –…
Estimated real gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 16.6% YoY in April and by 3.6% in the first four months of 2020, showed the latest data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). In April estimated real growth compared to the same period of the previous year was negative in almost all activities. Growth…
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.7% YoY in the first quarter of 2020, figures released by state agency Statistics Estonia showed. GDP at current prices stood at EUR 6.5 billion. Value added grew by 2%, Statistics Estonia reported, driven primarily by information and communication and construction. Economic growth was hindered mainly by the energy…
In April, the average nominal salary in Ukraine amounted to UAH 10,430, up by 1.6% YoY, according to the State Statistics Service. “The average nominal salary of a full-time employee of enterprises, institutions and organizations made up UAH 10,430 in April, up 2.2-fold from the minimum wage (UAH 4,723). The average nominal salary decreased by…
In the first quarter of 2020, investments in Ukraine’s economy decreased by 29% and in the agriculture sector – by 35.3%, Oleksandr Zakharchuk, Head of the Investment, Material and Technical Resources Department at the National Research Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics” (IAE), stated referring to data released by the State Statistics Service. “In January-March, total…