Inflation in Kazakhstan in 2018 is projected in the corridor of 5-7%, said the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev during a press conference on January 25. He added that in 2017 annual inflation amounted to 7.1%, which corresponded to the initial target corridor (6-8% for 2017). “Slowing of the inflation took…
Industrial production in Ukraine in 2017 decreased by 0.1% compared to 2016, and in December 2017 it dropped by 0.5%, the State Statistics Service said. The authority said that with the adjustment to the effect of calendar days industrial production in December 2017 increased by 0.4% YoY. In comparison with the previous month in December…
Valery Belsky, Director of the Institute of Economics of Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences, named the prerequisites for the country’s GDP growth in 2018. According to him, in 2017 Belarus’ GDP went up by 2.4% versus the expected 1.7% increase. It stands to reason that the uptrend will continue in 2018, he believes. In particular,…
Ukraine is holding talks with the European Commission and the European Investment Bank to implement a broad program for granting loans and grants to small and medium-sized businesses in order to minimize the outflow of Ukrainians to work abroad, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “We are now working with the European Commission and…
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has said that a priority of work in 2018 will be privatization and the replacement of the profit tax with the tax on withdrawn capital.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ambitious – privatization, deregulation, improving investment climate, national bureau on financial security, tax on withdrawn capital, liberal…