Author: Tatyana Gracheva
They established a new special economic zone in Kyzylorda region
As Kazinform News Agency reports, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov has signed a resolution to establish a special economic zone in Kyzylorda region.
An area of 550 hectares along the Western Europe – Western China international transport corridor will be occupied by the Qorqyt Ata SEZ.
The aims of the new SEZ are to fast track the development of modern high productive and competitive enterprises, to attract investments, to introduce new technologies in economy, and to raise employment.
They will introduce a special legal regime with the provision of tax and customs preferences in the SEZ.
According to expectations, the total volume of investments in the SEZ will have exceed 150 billion tenge (80 billion tenge with foreign investments) by 2049. There are predictions that the volume of production of goods and services will reach 500 billion tenge, 90% with local content.
The SEZ will create some 3,366 jobs in 39 resident companies within 25 years.
The document gives the status of a port area, as part of creation of multimodal aero-hubs and in line with the customs legislation to the special economic zones Ontustik, Astana-Technopolis, Saryarqa, Alatau and Aktobe.
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The process of creating a new employment strategy is taking place in Ukraine.
According to the Ministry of Economy, its main goal is to give the chance to work to citizens who are struggling to find employment, particularly veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, older adults, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and Ukrainians living abroad. Around 4.65 million IDPs are registered in Ukraine currently, and nearly two million of them are of working age. Moreover, over 6.9 million citizens live abroad. As the Ministry of Economy says, the aim of this new strategy is making inclusion essential for sustainable economic growth, not optional.
They are proposing various solutions: enhancing career counseling, adopting internship programs, promoting professional retraining, implementing retraining initiatives for veterans, and endorsing integration programs, among others. As a result, as the State Employment Service has reported, there was an increase in job vacancies that offer housing benefits in response to the personnel shortage in Ukraine.
The Unified Vacancy Portal currently shows over 230,000 job postings available daily, including more than 2,000 job openings with housing provision listed since the start of the year. The increase compared to the same period last year attains 30%. Employees found 3,500 vacancies including those offering housing benefits over the past year, especially in Kyiv and the surrounding areas.
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Read moreNew special economic zone established in Kyzylorda region
Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov has signed a resolution to establish a special economic zone in Kyzylorda region, Kazinform News Agency reports. The Qorqyt Ata SEZ will occupy an area of 550 hectares along the Western Europe – Western China international transport corridor. The new SEZ is called to fast track the development of modern high productive […]
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