DUSHANBE (TCA) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission, led by Mr. Paul Ross, visited Tajikistan from February 1 to 10 to discuss the country’s macroeconomic policies and the structural reform agenda.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Official statistics and overall public opinion tell that foreign direct investment in Kyrgyzstan is declining and there is no investment at all in small and medium enterprises (SME). Kyrgyzstan has to react and the Government should understand that due to different factors such as international crisis, currency problems, cashless Russia, and Eurasian Economic Union membership, the country needs a new industrial approach with income from the China trade being replaced with local production and processing.
ASTANA (TCA) — The first meeting of the Kazakhstan-Iran Business Council was held as part of the Kazakhstan-Iran business forum in Tehran on February 7 and 8.
ALMATY (TCA) — The deficit of the balance of payments of Kazakhstan for 2015 is preliminarily estimated at US $5.3 billion compared to a surplus of $6 billion in 2014. The reason is the country’s decreasing exports, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported with reference to the country’s National Bank.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan and the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) last week signed an agreement to finance the Livestock and Pasture Development Project II (LPDP), an initiative that aims to reduce the vulnerability of pastoral communities to climate change threats.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The results of the high frequency survey Listening to Tajikistan covering the period of September to November 2015 were published on February 8 on the World Bank Tajikistan website. The survey aimed at measuring the impact of the economic slowdown in 2015 on households in Tajikistan was initiated by the World Bank in May 2015, with the opening of the high season for many workers from Tajikistan working abroad.
