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Economy
29/01/2009
IMF predicts 7-per-cent GDP growth in Uzbekistan in 2009 - minister
IMF headquarters in Washington
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) --
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts the Uzbek GDP growth in 2009 at seven per cent against nine per cent in 2008, Uzbek Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade Elyor Ganiyev told a business forum in the Uzbek capital.
"An IMF mission visited Uzbekistan literally some weeks ago and confirmed that the Uzbek economic growth in 2008 was nine per cent. And it forecasts that economic growth in 2009 will be at the level of seven per cent.
Assessments of Uzbekistan are very close to the IMF figures. At the same time, we predict that economic growth will be 7.8% in 2009," Elyor Ganiyev said.
He says that high indexes of the economic growth are substantially connected with new investment projects "that are steadily being implemented today".
About US$2.8 billion worth of foreign investment in Uzbek economy last year.
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