Friday, 22, November, 2024
Friday, 22, November, 2024
Sodiq Safoev, the First Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Uzbekistan and EBRD Governor for Uzbekistan, addressed the EBRD Board of Directors in London on Wednesday. It was the first high-level visit of a Uzbek official since the resumption of the Bank’s full operations in the country in November 2017.
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $450 million loan to help install between 850 to 950 megawatts (MW) in additional generation capacity in the Talimarjan thermal power plant (TPP) using combined cycle technology, which will help improve power generation efficiency and energy security in Uzbekistan.
Uzbek Statistics Committee for the first time released monthly consumer price inflation. In November, consumer prices for goods and services increased by an average of 2%, including food - by 1.5% (faster than in November 2016 – 0.8% ), non-food - by 3.4% and services - by 0.5%. Consumer prices for fruits and vegetables in November was influenced by the seasonal factor.
In 2000-2015, the electricity consumption in Uzbekistan increased from 46.8 billion kWh to 57.5 billion kWh. It is estimated that by 2020 the country will consume by 25% more or 71.8 billion kWh of electricity. The current installed capacity of the country's power plants is 12,994 MW, including 12,514 MW of installed capacity of 39 thermal and hydroelectric power plants of SJSC Uzbekenergo.
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $45 million loan to help improve the quality of rural primary healthcare services in Uzbekistan. The project will help expand the scope of service delivery and bring those new services closer to the people.
Uzbekistan and South Korea signed over US$2.7 billion worth of finance deals during the state visit of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Korea Republic.
UzPromStroyBank and Korea Eximbank signed an addendum to the general inter-bank agreement. Korea Eximbank boosted its partnership with UzPromStroyBank raised the credit line of $10 million to $30 million.
On January 1, 2018, Uzbekistan will transition to the international method of calculating the inflation rates. It is one of the government’s steps of transitioning to the inflation targeting system, the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank (CB) Timur Ishmetov said yesterday at a meeting of the International Press Club.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Wencai Zhang today met with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov. Mr. Zhang reiterated ADB’s support for the government’s development agenda and expressed confidence in the country’s economic prospects.
Following the launch of a broad reform programme in Uzbekistan, the EBRD is taking its engagement with the Central Asian country to a new level by opening an office and signing the first new projects since 2010.
Uzbekistan has made substantial investments in upgrading its water supply and sanitation (WSS) services over the past decade, amassing the largest public borrowing portfolio for WSS projects of any country in Central Asia. Despite such progress, residents – particularly in rural areas - continue to face challenges in accessing clean and reliable water services.
The 16th Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Ministerial Conference was held in Dushanbe (Tajikistan).
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is reviewing financing of two more projects in Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan inflation rate reached 7.8% in nine months, which is by 2.2 percentage points higher than last year, the Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) said.
The Government of Uzbekistan in 2018-2019 plans to attract $200 million in a loan from Turkish Ziraat Bank for construction and reconstruction of affordable multi-storied housing in Uzbekistan's cities.
Uzbekistan firms applied for a total of $51.18 million EBRD loans for three projects. A USD 30 million loan in favour of Ipoteka-bank to be split between a senior MSME loan of up to USD 25 million with the proceeds to be on-lent to eligible subborrowers, and up to USD 5 million for trade finance activities.
Turkish state lender Ziraat Bank, a partner in Uzbekistan’s first foreign bank, UTBank, aims to grow its investments in the country by purchasing the remaining shares and rebranding the bank, Ziraat Bankası said yesterday.
The President of the EBRD Suma Chakrabarti today send a message to the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
President of Uzbekistan appointed Anvar Karimov, former chief of Financial Department of the Syrdarya province governor’s office, as Deputy Finance Minister.
Since 1992 the monetary contribution of the UN system to Uzbekistan has been about US$471 million, the UN Country office in Uzbekistan said in a statement.