TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — In the course of 2015 the European Union disbursed the highest amount it has ever disbursed to the Kyrgyz Republic. The total of €34.6 million paid from the EU’s general budget included €24.6 million in development assistance and a €10 million grant payment for Macro-Financial Assistance, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
Stratfor
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan faces state budget deficit the Government is trying to raise budget revenues at the expense of the citizens. In February 2016, compulsory insurance of residential real estate and motor transport will be introduced in Kyrgyzstan.
LONDON (TCA) — Study material publicised over summer last year by the World Travel & Tourism Council on the development of Central Asia’s tourism sector shows disappointing figures in terms of the contribution from the sector to the region’s overall economic development. Opening up the area for larger numbers of tourists would make transportation and accommodation cheaper, and the destination, which has many interesting things to offer, more competitive.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Government of Kyrgyzstan has developed an affordable housing program until 2020 for public-sector employees.
TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested a record amount in the Central Asian region in 2015. Last year’s total investment rose 75 per cent to €1.402 billion from €803 million, in 82 different transactions following 71 projects in 2014. This brings the total EBRD financing in Central Asia to just over €10 billion, the Bank said.
