Media Review October 10, 2019

Strengthening the competitive ability of Azerbaijan, proposals to the new Prime Minister from a deputy, discussion of the country's economic problems are the topics of today's media.

The Azerbaijan newspaper writes that in the Global Competition Index report, Azerbaijan is in the top three among the CIS countries and the South Caucasus.

Advancing 11 steps, Azerbaijan took 58th position. The Center for Communication and Analysis of Economic Reforms in its commentary notes that in all sectors deep reforms have been implemented, as well as projects aimed at economic growth.

The website Bizimyol.info.az writes about the proposals of the deputy Vahid Ahmedov to the Cabinet of Ministers and the new Prime Minister. The deputy believes that the country's economy should not depend on oil, but on the non-oil sector. Attention should be focused on the development of agriculture, industry and tourism. The deputy also advised the Cabinet of Ministers to prepare reports of not 350-400 pages, but to write more specifically and briefly about the work done and the intended work.

The website Azpolitika.info writes about the serious problems that await the new Prime Minister Ali Asadov. The author believes that, first of all, transparency should be ensured, the financial and banking sector should be improved, the monopoly, the weight of oligarch officials in business and so on should be eliminated. Without all this, it will be impossible to attract investments into the country, to stop the leakage of capital from the country.