Azerbaijan: As Incomes Rise, Fortunetelling Booms
Azerbaijan: As Incomes Rise, Fortunetelling Booms While Azerbaijan grows rich from energy extracted from beneath the land and sea, quacks and charlatans in the Caspian Basin nation are making hay. In a national survey conducted earlier this year by the Baku-based Center for Economic and Social Development, an internationally recognized independent think-tank, roughly a quarter [...]
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CESD Internship Program 2013 in Azerbaijan
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Considering Accession to the Eurasian Economic Union: For Azerbaijan, Disadvantages Outweigh Advantages
Considering Accession to the Eurasian Economic Union: For Azerbaijan, Disadvantages Outweigh Advantages The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is an economic integration project, similar to the European Union, proposed by the Russian Federation (RF) in late 2011. The EEU is an extension of existing integrative projects of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and other countries (namely, the Commonwealth [...]
Failure in Azerbaijan Government T-bills
Failure in Azerbaijan Government T-bills Short-term government bonds (T-bills) of the Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan, whose sales have resumed at the Baku Stock Exchange for the first time since 3 May 2013 are still not in grave demand. So far the MoF managed to raise through the sale of T-bills only AZN 2.8 million [...]
SOFAZ Speaks in Russian
SOFAZ Speaks in Russian CESD: Purchasing of “VTB Bank” s shares is a political message State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan bought additional share emission of VTB Bank, Russia. The volume of the issue is RR 102.5 billion (quantity – 2.5 trillions, face value – RR 0.041). The emission has already been registered by Russian Bank. [...]
European Commission grants legislation exemptions for TAP and Nabucco West
European Commission grants legislation exemptions for TAP and Nabucco West The European Commission adopted a formal decision granting the exemptions from the European Union (EU) legislation for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and the Nabucco West projects, the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan said on Friday. This decision appears as an extension of the existing exemption [...]
