Rovshan Aghayev

According to Azerbaijani local media , the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) advises the country’s banks to provide favorable loan...

11 April, 2022 / Rovshan Aghayev

In the summer of 2018, the Azerbaijani government applied a new budget rule which introduced some restrictions on the spending...

27 December, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

In the absence of effective mechanisms and systems, public procurement becomes a huge source of large-scale corruption. In particular, with...

1 October, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

An analysis of the long-term trends in the dynamics of the housing stock is interesting in several respects. If the...

1 May, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

In his book, The Rise and Fall of Nations, Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley, a US...

8 April, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

It is easy to measure the quantity of housing in Azerbaijan because, according to the reports submitted by various agencies...

22 March, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

On February 2, the national priorities for the socio-economic development of Azerbaijan over the next 10 years were set by...

26 February, 2021 / Rovshan Aghayev

The year 2020 has already entered history as a year of a global pandemic, almost half of which was spent...

24 December, 2020 / Rovshan Aghayev

President Aliyev's instructions to the heads of local executive authorities to attract investors to the provinces at any cost are...

7 November, 2020 / Rovshan Aghayev

In a previous article, I analyzed the state of households. The main conclusion was that households had greater immunity in...

23 April, 2020 / Rovshan Aghayev

The catastrophic disruption of the global economy brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an earthquake in world oil...

11 April, 2020 / Rovshan Aghayev

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11 February, 2020 / Rovshan Aghayev

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29 December, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

The Azerbaijani parliament has essentially finished discussing the 2020 budget - the next two sessions are formalities. For many years,...

19 November, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

Almost 30 years separate us from the USSR. But there are processes whose results cannot be assessed after a day,...

27 October, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

The official statistical agency of Azerbaijan is perhaps one of the few such agencies in the world that produces and...

3 October, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

The "golden decade" of oil wealth in Azerbaijan (2005-2015) was also marked by the rapid growth of the country's automotive...

30 August, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

On June 18, Azerbaijan’s president issued 17 different orders increasing salaries. One of those orders is related to an increase...

8 July, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

The topic of reform has been a theme of official propaganda for the last four years. It seems that it...

3 June, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

The 2018 United Nations Human Development Report can be viewed as a source that everyone can reference with pride. According...

7 May, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

Excluding natural resources, tourism is at the top of the list of the priority sectors selected by the Azerbaijani government....

25 April, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

In 8 months Azerbaijan will hold municipal elections. However, the Azeri public shows no interest in the existence or absence...

4 April, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev

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21 December, 2018 / Rovshan Aghayev

The service sector is usually ignored during the public debate on how to reduce Azerbaijan’s excessive reliance on resource revenues....

3 September, 2018 / Rovshan Aghayev

Although the title sounds strange, according to official statistics, the poor population in Azerbaijan receive a greater share of income...

23 May, 2018 / Rovshan Aghayev

The official statistics has to be reliable; otherwise economic decisions cannot meet either present or long-term goals.  For example, if...

2 May, 2018 / Rovshan Aghayev