Next Year to Face More Legalized Theft
Peak of plundering the state budget through the development of the volume allocated to the state capital investments for 2015 will have.
According to forecasts of the Ministry of Finance on the expenditure side of the budget for the following year, the volume of investments will reach a record 6,930 mln. AZN (+ 10.7% to the forecast for this year).
According to the forecasts for the years 2016-2018, reduction of investments is planned for this position. Thus, in 2016 the volume of capital investment is projected at 6.2 billion AZN, in 2017 - 5.8 billion AZN, and in 2018 - 5.4 billion manat.
Azerbaijan allocates annually over 6 billion manat for development of investment projects. No ministry or agency reports them to the public and Parliament. --17D-
Economics
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