The Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan, Timur Suleimenov, reported on October 17 on the economic situation in the country. “Since the start of the year, the economic activity has improved. The GDP growth for 9 months of this year has amounted to 4.3%,” he said, making a speech at the government meeting. According to…
The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion (30%) in the nine months of 2017, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman posted on Facebook. “The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion, and the revenues of budgets of the united territorial communities grew by 82.7% and totaled UAH 6.3 billion in the nine months…
In January-August Belarus’ export of merchandise and services rose by 19.2% YoY, to $22.907 billion, the latest statistics released by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) shows. Belarus’ foreign trade in merchandise and services totaled $45.338 billion, up by 18.6%. Export amounted to $22.907 billion, up by 19.2%; import rose by 18%,…
In September the number of unemployed individuals in Kazakhstan was estimated to be 438,900 people, while the unemployment rate was 4.9% of the economically active population (4.9% in August), the Statistics Committee of the Kazakh National Economy Ministry reported. Official figures show that as of the end of September, 128,800 people, or 1.4% of the…
Over the month, Kyrgyzstan’s national debt grew by $97.71 million. Thus, since the beginning of the year, it has increased by $313.97 million, the Ministry of Finance reported. As of August 31, the state debt was $4,378.71 billion, or 300,764.62 billion soms. $3,984.54 billion (273,690.08 billion soms) is the country’s external debt, and $394.17 million…
The consumer price index for goods and services totaled 100.3% in September as against August, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported. The consumer price index for goods and services totaled 102.7% in September as against December 2016. The core CPI that excludes certain items that face volatile price movements due to administrative and seasonal…
The average price level in Latvia in September, as compared to September last year, increased by 2.9%, according to official estimates. The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia stated, that over the period prices were affected the most by rising prices of food and non-alcoholic drinks, goods and services linked to transport, the group of miscellaneous…