Natig Jafarli: ‘Economic Activity in 2017 to Drop Even More
Draft budget figures for 2017 show that economic activity in the next year will drop even more, the economist Natig Jafarli said.
In his profile on the social network Facebook Jafarli, analyzing the draft budget presented by the Ministry of Finance, advised to pay special attention to the reduction of investment costs by 38%.
‘In recent years, low-investment costs had been the engine of economic activity. Now, this model has failed, and economic activity will fall due to the reduction of investment costs by 38%,’ Jafarli said. -----71D
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