State funding of small and medium business should be at the 14%rate per annum, Kairat Kelimbetov, Head of SamrukKazyna National Welfare Fund said at the Government’s telephone conference today.
The average monthly salary in Uzbekistan by results of 9 months in 2008 is 298.6 thousand sums (approximately US$ 220), reported Ministry of Economy and State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.
Annual shadow economy rates in Kyrgyzstan reach 60 billion soms, which is half as much as the state budget, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Igor Chudinov, said at the official meeting with the president, government members, donors and business-associations in Bishkek on Monday.
Vera Zhukova Zaznova, a representative of the unit for international cooperation of the European Commission Department for Central Asia, has arrived in Ashgabat.
Kyrgyz police questioned a son of a known opposition leader Alikbek Jekshenkulov over the murder of the journalist Alisher Saipov., the news agency “24.kg†learnt from a source in the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry.
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand trade and economic opportunities through railway transport.
A conference dedicated to the development of Turkmenistan's oil and gas industry took place in Ashgabat as part of the international exhibition "Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan - 2008".
US$ 1 billion out of US$ 10 billion allotted from National Fund will be directed on small and medium business support, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Kazakh President said tesyerday.
State Commission on conducting tender sales of State property to international investors in accordance with Uzbekistan President Decree announced the tender on 51% of stocks of joint stock company «Farg'onaazot».
