Astana, 22 May 2012. Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Executive Board, took part in the 25th plenary session of the Foreign Investors Council chaired by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan as an international trade, logistics, business and financial hub was the main theme of the meeting
Almaty, 21 May 2012. The main objective of the Common Economic Space (CES) is to foster improvements in business environment for investors and entrepreneurs from the three countries and other states through the promotion of the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour. Igor Finogenov, Chairman of Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Managing Board, said this on Saturday at the session Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus: New Investment Opportunities within the Common Economic Space (CES) at the EBRD Annual Meeting in London
The present difficult course of events in Europe and EU
Eurozone is not a crisis for the idea of integration in general or Eurozone in
particular. Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
Managing board, expressed his confidence in that today in an exclusive
interview to Roman Poderbyanski, correspondent of ITAR-TASS UK office. The Head
of EDB participates in the two-day Business Forum of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London
— Igor Valentinovich, at this Forum much attention is given to the crisis in Europe, in particular, in the Eurozone. Do you think it is a crisis of the model chosen by the European countries? What, in your judgment, is the problem? With respect to the Eurasian integration, what lessons are to be learned, what mistakes are not to be repeated so that we were able to avoid such difficult situation here?
The Bank signed a US $75 million loan agreement with RAIL1520 leasing company.
Almaty, 17 May 2012. The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) will provide a ten-year US $75 million loan to RAIL1520 to finance a project to develop freight transportation. The loan agreement was signed today in Moscow
Almaty, 17 May 2012. The Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB)
delegation headed by Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the Executive Board, will take
part in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Annual
Meeting which will take place in London
Belarus intends to raise average salary in the country up to US$500 by the end of this year. How can plans to increase household incomes affect the country’s economic situation? What should be done to prevent crisis phenomena in the Belarusian economy? We sought answers to these questions in the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund, whose resources are managed by the Eurasian Development Bank, and which is one of the key creditors of Belarus
Alisher Mirzoev, Head of Social and Economic Policy Department of the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund, answers the questions of the BelaPAN News Agency
Almaty, 14 May 2012. The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) has published monograph «Investment Priorities of Cooperation in Trans-boundary River Basins in Central Asia». The authors are Vladimir Yasinsky, Member of the Executive Board and Head of Research at EDB, Alexander Mironenkov, Head of Technical Assistance Division at EDB, and Tulegen Sarsembekov, Deputy Head of Technical Assistance Division at EDB. This is the Bank’s third large study on the use of water resources. The book analyses the pressing issues of investment support to the water management infrastructure in Central Asia and the priorities of cooperation in this area.
Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Center for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank, in an interview given to the newspaper «Evening Bishkek» answered all questions on the accession of Kyrgyzstan to the Customs Union.
«Economic Integration is a useful and important development tool, which
the government can use in addressing structural problems of the national
economy. Integration opens new vistas for economic development, but it is
not manna from heaven that suddenly befalls you. It is nothing but an
opportunity, a country, investors, businesses may or may not choose to take
advantage of». Those were the words used in an interview to the
«Evening Bishkek» Online Editorial Office by Evgeny Vinokurov,
Director of the Center for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development
Bank, to describe the current status of the proposed accession of Kyrgyzstan to
the Customs Union of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus
Almaty, 23 April 2012. International experts from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), with the technical assistance from the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), have prepared the Innovation Performance Review of Kazakhstan. The report was presented by Rumen Dobrinsky, UNECE Director of Economic Cooperation and Integration, Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to UNECE, and Talgat Mukanov, Director for New Technologies and Energy Efficiency at the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the fifth session of the UNECE Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies in Geneva this April