DUSHANBE, April 23, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.2 percent in three months to April 1, reaching 2.726 billion somonis, the first Deputy Finance Minister, Sherali Safarov, announced at a press conference in Dushanbe today.
According to him, inflation for the first three months of this year stood at 2.6 percent.
The past difficult winter inflicted and a series of power cutoffs inflicted serious damage to the country’s industrial sector, the deputy minister said. As far as the agrarian sector is concerned, compared to January-March 2007 the gross agricultural product over the report period has increased by 6.6 percent, Safarov said.
We will recall that this year, Tajikistan plans to hold inflation at the rate of 8 percent. However, specialists from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) say that rising world prices may affect the inflation rate in the country and it may nearly double.
