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On Real Incomes of Belarusians
Stable tendency of increasing real incomes has continued in
Belarus since 1996. This index is one of the most important social and
economic indicators determining the level and standard of living. In the
first half of the 90s in Belarus as in other CIS countries the living
standard were deteriorating on account of the objective difficulties of the
transition period. From the mid 90s the situation in Belarus began turning
for the better. Of great importance in increasing the incomes was the
increase of wages (the main source of the formation of money incomes of the
population) owing to the state social policy in the given sphere.
The Ministry for Statistics and Analysis informed that in
2003 the real money income of the Belarusian people went up 2.6 times in
comparison with 1995 and by 7,5% in comparison with 2002.
Head of National Bank of Belarus on
Belarusian Ruble Rate
The Belarusian ruble (BYR) is getting stronger against the
world's major currencies, declared Board Chairman of the National Bank of
Belarus Petr Prokopovich.
Reporting to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Petr
Prokopovich said: "Never before the rate of the national currency has been
as stable and predictable as in 2004".
"The Belarusian ruble has stabilised against the euro, has
not been devaluating against the American dollar, while the rate of
devaluation against the Russian ruble makes an insignificant 1.3%," said
Peotr Prokopovich.
In January-July 2004 the total volume of loans granted in
Belarus grew by 26%, totalling more than BYR 8 trillion.
NBB's interest rate policy is aimed at drawing more deposits
from individuals and enterprises, and reducing the cost of borrowed
resources. Since early this year the key refinancing rate has reduced by 10
percentage points from 28% in January to 18% per annum in August.
On New Maz-Man Truck
MAZ-MAN company is ready to start the serial production of
MAZ-MAN 750268 dump truck with the 8x4 chassis formula.
Its 16.5-20m3 platform on a self-controlled lifting axis can
hold 28 tons of cargo. The speed is limited by electronics to 88 km/h. The
new truck is powered by a 410 h.p. six-cylinder in-line MAN D2866 LF31
engine and ZF 16S-181 gear box.
Over seven months of the year the company assembled 188
trucks, 120% more than a year before. 146 trucks were sold in Belarus (up by
270%). This year MAZ-MAN intends to make and sell 500 trucks.
MAZ-MAN offers a wide choice of trucks, including truck
tractors with 4x2 and 6x4 wheel formulas with the different height of truck
bolster, high-capacity road-trains with 6x2 prime movers, dump trucks 6x4
and 6x2 chassises, prime movers for the North and for hazardous cargo
transportation.
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