Compared with the same month of last year, Latvia had the fourth highest inflation index among EU member states in this year’s May, according to data from Eurostat. Last month, consumer prices in Latvia were 2.7% higher when compared with May last year. Inflation was only higher in Estonia (+3.5%), Lithuania (+3.2%) and the UK…
Frist Deputy Head of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) Jamoliddin Nouraliyev met with representatives of Moody’s Investors Service, the bond credit rating business of Moody’s Corporation. According to the NBT press service, Jamoliddin Nouraliyev met with Moody’s analysts Atsi Sheth and Mathew Kirkosta as well as Nathalie Marshik, an expert at Oppenheimer & Co.…
During his two-day official visit to Armenia, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has got acquainted with its innovative development. Tajik leader visited Technology and Science Dynamics LLC (TSD) in Yerevan. Rahmon reportedly got acquainted with TSD achievements in the field of information and communications technologies. Technology and Science Dynamics is a research and development corporation established…
During the Innovation Summit within the Astana Economic Forum, Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev said that Kazakhstan has removed all the trade barriers with China. “Of course, to enter the Chinese market it is not enough to have a desire only. We agreed with China for almost all the main types of agricultural products, except…
The reduction of the customs duty on the export of potash fertilizers will not substantially influence the state budget, Belarusian First Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Yermolovich declared after an expanded-participation session of the Budget and Finance Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on June 14. When asked whether this…
Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev has met with the American Chamber of Commerce. At the meeting Akishev noted that the National Bank as the central bank of the country closely monitored trends in and outside the country and assumed measures taking into account global trends and challenges. “Kazakhstan…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has proposed retaining expense expenditures for 2018 at 5% of GDP, according to the draft bill “Budget policy basics for 2018-2020 (Budget Resolution).” “The priority is supporting defense and security: expenditures for this sphere for 2018 will be at 5% of GDP,” Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said, presenting the resolution. “Within…