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TASHKENT (TCA) — Today, more than half of Uzbekistan’s gross domestic product (GDP) is produced by small businesses. Small business accounts for over 45 percent of industrial production and 98 percent of agricultural production in the country, the Jahon information agency reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), as the Resources Manager of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilisation and Development (EFSD), and the Kyrgyz Republic have signed an investment credit agreement for US $110 million to be provided by the EFSD to finance the commissioning of Unit 2 at Kambarata hydropower plant (HPP) 2. The document was signed by Dmitry Pankin, Chairman of the Management Board at EDB, and Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Finance, EDB said on March 13.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The government of Afghanistan has offered Russia to participate in the restoration of 124 facilities important for the national economy, the commercial attache of the Afghan Embassy to Russia Kasem Mohammad has said, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The 5th meeting of the Kazakh-Egyptian Intergovernmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Cultural, Humanitarian, Scientific and Technical Cooperation was held in Cairo, Egypt last week, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, with the support of the Government of Switzerland, is launching a state-of-the-art training program in Tajikistan that is designed to expand access to finance for local entrepreneurs, the IFC said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Alliance française in Bishkek jointly with the Embassies of Switzerland, France, and Belgium to Kyrgyzstan are holding the Week of Francophonie in Bishkek from 13th to 17th of March.
