The exports of Ukrainian goods grew to $7.4 billion in two months of 2018. “In two months of 2018 the exports of Ukrainian goods totaled $7.4 billion (up by 17.9% YoY),” Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman posted on Facebook. As the Prime Minister noted, the exports to the EU showed the highest growth, up…
Micro, small and medium-sized private businesses in Tajikistan will now benefit from a new Regional Small Business Program (RSBP) launched in Dushanbe on April 19, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Resident Office in Dushanbe reported. The EU-funded and EBRD-managed project is reportedly designed to transfer know-how in the field of micro, small…
Ukrainian Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva says 40% of Ukraine’s economy remains in the shadow, therefore the developed countries’ standards of solving economic problems cannot be effective in Ukraine, while de-shadowing will bring more money to the wage fund than the actual economic growth. “This was proved by the government in 2017. The entire wage…
Incomes of local budgets have grown almost 4-foldover the past two years, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said during a meeting with representatives of regional media. “When we started to work, the local budgets amounted to UAH 64 billion and did not have own revenues. Now they amount to UAH 231 billion, which is…
The Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business Environment of Romania have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the economic sphere. The document was signed in Ashgabat as part of the seventh meeting of the joint Intergovernmental Turkmen-Romanian Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation.…
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev praised national GDP growth in 2018 at the session of the government on April 17. “From what we have heard during reports today it follows that GDP growth amounted to 4.1% in March. The Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev tasked the government to step up economic growth and given…
The World Bank predicts that inflation in Ukraine in 2018 may reach 10%, as inflation risks remain quite significant, World Bank Economist for Ukraine Anastasia Golovach said at a press conference. “Inflation reached almost 14% in 2017. Inflation risks remain significant, and we expect inflation to reach 10% in 2018,” Golovach said. According to her,…