Today the State Statistics Committee (SSC) reported on wage employment in the economy, according to which from January 1 to June 1 the number of employees working for ‘paycheck to paycheck’ increased by 5.9 thousand people. On Sunday, President Ilham Aliyev stated a figure 13 times higher than the SSC report.
According to SSC, as of the first of June this year, the number of workers employed in the country amounted to 1 million 501.7 thousand people, of which 891.3 thousand work in the public sector. For the five months the public sector provided jobs to 13.9 thousand people. During this period, 8,000 people lost their jobs in the private sector.
At the Cabinet meeting on July 10, President Ilham Aliyev said that in the six months 90,000 new jobs were created in Azerbaijan and 78,000 of them are permanent. He stressed the closure of 26,000 jobs. -----08D
Economics
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The volume of cargo transported along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) surged by 62% in 2024, reaching 4.5 million tonnes, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said during talks with his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday, according to the Kazakh government’s press service.
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Azerbaijan’s Small and Medium Business Development Agency (KOBİA) held a Supervisory Board meeting on Monday, chaired by Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov, to review the agency’s 2024 performance and set priorities for 2025.
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In January 2025, the average price of the consumer basket (CB) compiled by the Turan agency in Baku, which includes 30 types of essential domestically produced food products, increased by 0.3%.
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Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to strengthen social protection for pensioners by implementing pension indexation, effective from January 1, 2025.
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