The growth of the GDP in Tajikistan in 2017 amounted to 7.1% compared to 2016, the Tajik Statistics Agency reported. Tajikistan’s GDP amounted to about 61.1 billion somoni ($6.9 billion) in 2017. Agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing and fish farming dominate in the GDP structure, making up 21.1% of the total GDP volume. The share of…
Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry has hosted a meeting with Mazen Shamiah, a Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry official for Asia and Africa, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. During the talks, the sides noted the need to further expand cooperation in trade and economy, as well as interest in developing relations between the business structures…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that a priority of work in 2018 will be privatization and the replacement of the profit tax with the tax on withdrawn capital. “In 2018 our priorities in reforms are no less ambitious – privatization, deregulation, improving investment climate, national bureau on financial security, tax on withdrawn capital, liberal…
According to preliminary data of the Central Treasury, the republican budget received 140.4.2 billion soms in 2017, the Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyzstan reported. The main part of the revenues is tax revenues – 91,462.8 billion soms. This is 9,977.1 billion soms more than in 2016. At the same time, the taxes and fees replenished…
Lviv plans a UAH440 million bond issue (to be issued in two tranches in 2018), Fitch Ratings said in a press release on January 15. “For 2018 Lviv’s direct debt may increase to UAH 440 million, or a still 4.7% below current revenue (from less than 0.1% in 2014-2017), if the city is successful in…
In December 2017 the number of unemployed people in Kazakhstan amounted to 441,800 people, which is 5% of the economically active population, the Statistics Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of National Economy reported. As of the end of December 2017, the employment agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan registered 70,300 unemployed people or 0.8% of…
Prices for consumer goods and tariffs for services in Azerbaijan increased by 12.9% in 2017 as compared to 2016, the State Statistics Committee said. During the period, prices for food products grew by 16.4%, prices for non-food items by 11.6%, and the cost of paid services increased by 9.3%. Monthly inflation for December 2017 was…