Every year each household in Latvia spends 200 and more euros on food that ends up thrown away, as concluded in a research performed by Environment Protection and Regional Development Ministry. Aside from food, people also throw away packaging, which makes it impossible to recycle. In December the ministry commenced a special initiative “Thrown out,…
The Pension Fund of Ukraine has started to finance pensions for December, the fund’s press service has reported. “On December 2 the Pension Fund of Ukraine started to finance pensions in accordance with the established schedule,” reads the report. The sum worth UAH 603.2 million was allocated for pension payments. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
In November the state budget of Ukraine received UAH 78.322 billion in revenues, down by UAH 18.846 billion, or by 19.4% from the target, according to the State Treasury Service of Ukraine. In particular, revenues of the state budget in November made up UAH 78.322 billion against projected UAH 97.168 billion. Revenues of the general…
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $250-million policy-based loan in support of the Azerbaijani government’s second program for Improving Governance and Public Sector Efficiency Program, a source with the ADB has said. Credit funds for the implementation of the second phase of the program will be provided for 15 years. According…
Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk will announce the start of a program for financing Ukrainian startups, according to the Government portal. The meeting on the launch of the program will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova, and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Startup…
Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Serhiy Kholod says the regulator plans to have increased the share of cashless transactions with payment cards from 50% to 55% by the end of 2020. “The share of non-cash transactions by payment credit cards has already reached about 50%, which fully complies with the NBU…
Real wages of Ukrainians grew by 9.6% in January-September, Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine Tymofiy Mylovanov wrote on his Facebook page. “Real wages (considering inflation) grew by 9.6% in the first nine months of 2019,” Mylovanov wrote. The minister also noted that real wages increased by 18% compared to the…