BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 18. The Azerbaijan
Business Development Fund (ABDF) provided soft loans totaling over
340 million manat ($200 million) for more than 5,800 investment
projects from January through November of this year, First Deputy
Minister of Economy Elnur Aliyev said at the Dayaq award ceremony
in Baku, Trend
reports.
"During the first nine months of the current year, 171 business
entities were granted resident and non-resident status in our
industrial zones, with total investments exceeding 8 billion manat
($4.7 billion)," the official explained.
According to him, during this period, the export volume from
industrial zones increased by 17%, accounting for approximately 30%
of the country's non-oil exports.
