Over 33bn soums directed to develop service sector
01/11/2014 15:11
Over 33bn soums directed to develop service sector
01/11/2014 15:11
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Over 33 billion soums of loans of Microcreditbank were directed to creation and development of service infrastructure in nine months of 2014 within the implementation of the programe for service development in 2012-2014.
This year, over 10,000 projects on service sector were implemented in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Economy and the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said.
In nine months of 2014, over 650 km of optic-fibre networks of broadband access were constructed and reserved within the programme on development of telecommunication technologies, networks and infrastructure of communication for 2013-2020.
Number of mobile communication and internet services increased in the result. The volume of financial services increased by 33.6% in the reporting period.
About 5,100 new projects in retail trade and catering sector were implemented in the reporting period, which ensured 16.6% growth of the sector. About 3,100 projects in personal services sector allowed to increase the volume of rendered services by 20%.
In the result, share of services in GDP of Uzbekistan grew from 49.9% in January-September 2013 to 50.1% in nine months of 2014.
$ 1 | 12570.00 | +0.024% |
1 | 13698.79 | -0.378% |
₽ 1 | 136.91 | -0.270% |