By Natalia Breus: This week, the President of Belarus focused on the issues of the country’s economy.
Overall, it overcame the negative consequences of the global financial and economic crisis. In the next 3 years, it is expected to catch up with the parameters of the five-year program.
The top priorities are employment, people’s income, stability of the financial system, loans, and the inflation rate. These tasks were set by the President when he was considering the key economic documents for 2018 – preliminary forecasts of the country’s socio-economic development, the budget, and the monetary policy. The main thing is the social vector of the economic policy.
Among the crucial tasks is the consolidation of the average salary in the country at the level of 1,000 BYN and its further increase in 2018. Also, the growth of employment is one of the aims of the updated Decree No. 3 and some programs for the development of regions and districts, as well as the progressive document on the liberalization of business.
