Revenues of local budgets in Ukraine grew by 31% or by UAH 45.3 billion due to the decentralization reform carried out in 2017, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote on his Facebook page. “665 united territorial communities have already been created in Ukraine. Territorial communities receive millions of hryvnias for infrastructure development: they buy equipment for…
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov confirmed the structure of the Turkmen part of Turkmen-Belarus intergovernmental committee on scientific and technological cooperation. Document was signed in order to further develop cooperation between Turkmenistan and Belarus, a message of the Turkmen government said. Turkmenistan is one of the key partners of Belarus in Central Asia, message on…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia, the exports of goods increased by 8% and imports by 9% YoY in 2017, with exports totaling EUR 12.8 billion and imports to Estonia EUR 14.7 billion at current prices. The trade deficit in 2017 was EUR 1.9 billion, up by EUR 315 million. The increase in the…
According to the preliminary data, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves totaled $6,477 million as of February 1, the Information and PR Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) reported. In January the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves went down by $837.9 million (11.5%). “The January decrease in Belarus’ international…
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Ukraine Goesta Ljungman says the IMF estimates the growth of Ukraine’s economy in 2017 at 2% and forecasts an increase by 3-3.5% in 2018. Ljungman said that there was a definite resumption of economic growth. “Last year it was 2%. In 2018 it will increase by about 3-3.5%,”…
The 2019 state budget will not have free fiscal space, said chairman of Fiscal Discipline Council (FDC) Janis Platais. He mentioned that everything that was possible to promise had been promised. Because of that, the budget has no free funds. “If plans come up to increase funding somewhere, it will be necessary to reduce it…
Belarus and Armenia have a big potential to increase mutual trade, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said at a one-on-one meeting with his Armenian counterpart Karen Karapetyan. According to Karen Karapetyan, last year the two countries increased trade by 20%. However, the two states can do much more. “There are more opportunities for trade growth.…