Macroeconomy

Azerbaijan is gradually entering a new phase in the development of its energy sector, where natural gas is beginning to assume the role that oil occupied for decades. While the country had been associ...

Azerbaijan’s retail market in 2026 continues to demonstrate resilience, although growth rates are beginning to reflect deeper structural changes in consumption patterns and the broader economy. After...

Azerbaijan is experiencing one of the largest construction cycles since the oil boom of the 2000s. Cranes continue to dominate the skyline of Baku, the suburbs of Absheron are expanding rapidly, and t...

In early spring, as tourists returned to the streets of Baku and construction crews continued raising new residential districts along the Caspian coast, economists in government offices were discussin...

Azerbaijan’s economy entered 2026 in an unusual position: official statistics show near-zero GDP growth, yet shopping malls, car dealerships and the consumer lending market continue to display notable...

Azerbaijan’s postal sector has in recent years entered a phase of transformation from a traditional mail and parcel delivery model into a broader platform for logistics, e-commerce and financial servi...

Azerbaijan’s tourism industry expects to significantly expand domestic tourism during the summer 2026 season, seeking to turn travel within the country into one of the drivers of the non-oil economy a...

Ferrous metallurgy remains one of the sectors that the Azerbaijani authorities consider strategically important within the framework of the country’s non-oil industrialization policy. However, the sec...

By a decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan dated May 8, 2026, significant amendments were introduced to the “Regulation on the Normative Price of State Land Plots on Which Privatized Stat...

The International Monetary Fund’s latest economic outlook for 2026–2028 reads less like a technical forecast and more like a map of a changing world. As major economies struggle with slowing growth, d...

In any country, migration is not simply the movement of people. It is the movement of skills, expectations, and ultimately the future. For Azerbaijan, this process remains less dramatic than in a numb...

Azerbaijan’s push to digitise its transport and logistics system is no longer just a policy ambition. It is increasingly visible in the numbers — uneven, but directional — that point to a system in tr...

Azerbaijan’s economy entered 2026 in a familiar configuration: externally resilient and fiscally supported by hydrocarbons, yet domestically constrained by weak consumer demand and limited diversifica...

On April 23, a regular meeting of the Commission on the Efficient Use of Water Resources was held under the chairmanship of Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev. During the meeting, th...

Azerbaijan’s transport and logistics sector posted moderate growth in the first quarter of 2026, reflecting the country’s rising role as a transit hub between Asia and Europe amid the ongoing reconfig...

Azerbaijan’s social dynamics in the first quarter of 2026 showed formal stability across key indicators, but their underlying structure points to persistent imbalances in incomes, employment and acces...