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Chisinau City Hall receives grant of $3.6 million from China
October 20, 2009Chisinau general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca said that he has recently received a set of documents from State Minister Victor Bodiu on a Chinese non-refundable grant of 3.6 million dollars (20 million yuani). The proceeds are meant for road traffic supervision...
Vlad Filat: Moldova holds constructive dialog with foreign donors
October 20, 2009The Moldovan Government has held an open and constructive dialog with the representatives of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and donor countries, Prime Minister Vlad Filat stated on Monday evening. Throughout the day, the meeting between...
EBRD forecasts economic growth in Moldova in 2010 BY 1.5%
October 19, 2009The economic growth in Moldova may constitute 1.5% in 2010. Such are the data of the 2009 EBRD Transition report, which will be published in November. According to the bank's press release, EBRD Chief Economist Eric Berglof considers obvious that the...
Russia to lend Moldova 150m dollars
October 12, 2009Russia will grant Moldova 150m dollars as a state loan in 2009. Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat and Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin reached an agreement to this effect on 9 Oct. 2009, the Moldovan government's press...
Japanese government grants $213.9k to Moldova
October 08, 2009The Japanese Government has allocated a grant in the amount of $214 thousand to Moldova for the implementation of three projects in the frame of the Kusanone free small-scale assistance. Mr. Tadashi IZAWA, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
Moldova's temperature in the "CIS economy"
October 08, 2009The results of eight months of the CIS economic life do not differ considerably from the deplorable results for the first half-year, experts, who analyzed the data, published by the CIS Statistic Committee, came to this conclusion. Compared with the...
EU May Grant $150 Million To Crisis-Hit Moldova
October 08, 2009An EU envoy says the European Commission could give Moldova at least 100 million euros ($147 million) to help it cover its growing budget deficit, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The announcement was made on October 7 in Chisinau by Wolfgang Behrendt...
IMF, WB revise loan conditions to support E.Europe through crisis
October 07, 2009By Ron Synovitz Russia said this week that it will not disburse the last $500 million tranche of a stabilization loan to Belarus and that it will not grant a $5 billion loan to Ukraine. Speaking in Istanbul at the start of the annual International...
Moldova's GDP to drop by 9% in 2009
October 07, 2009In 2009 Moldova's GDP will decline 9%, and in 2010 no economic growth is expected. Such are the IMF's forecasts published in the IMF report on world situation. According to this report, Moldova is the only country, where no economic growth is expected...
Moldova's ministry of agriculture to protect local producers
October 05, 2009Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Valeriu Cosarciuc has spoken out for the Parliament's approval of measures for protecting local producers. On Friday, he said in the Parliament that the recession in the agrarian sector will constituted 25% in...