The State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) Dushanbevodokanal (DVK, municipal waterworks) plans to raise water prices by 20% beginning on October 1. The Antimonopoly Agency has partially complied with the DVK proposal to raise water prices for residential customers. “Starting from October 1, the price of one cubic meter of water for residential customers will be raised…
Organized by the World Bank, the Central Asia Water Future Forum and Expo is being held in the Kazakh city of Almaty on September 19-22. The event has reportedly brought together over 200 policy makers and practitioners from governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan, the international community of water practitioners, as well…
24 state property units were sold as part of another auction held by the Azerbaijani State Committee on Property Issues on September 20, within the new privatization program in the country. As a result, some 1.1 million manats will be transferred to the country’s state budget. The third stage of privatization started as part of…
A committee for the organization of the 2017 Belarusian Industrial Forum, that will take place in Minsk on May 23-26, 2017, has been set up in Belarus in line with the executive order No.388p signed by the Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov, the press service of the Belarusian government reported. The committee will be chaired by…
The National Bank of Ukraine is interested in further development of high-tech financial market in Ukraine, as it will positively influence the implementation of Cashless Economy project. That was reported by Serhii Shatskyi, Director of Payment Systems and Innovative Development Department. “NBU is committed to assist the Ukrainian payment market to become mainly cashless; for…
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced economic growth. According to statistics, in the second quarter of 2016, the gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to 31 million 434 000 lei. Thus, the real economic growth was 1.8% YoY. However, the share of exports was down against 2015. In January-July Moldovan economic agents exported goods worth over…
Over $68.2 billion has been invested in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas sector from 1995 till 2016 as part of the production sharing agreements, Rovnag Abdullayev, president of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, said. “Currently, SOCAR successfully represents Azerbaijan in 17 production sharing agreements signed with 23 companies from 15 countries”, he said. At the same…