IMF: Central Asia, Caucasus to face sharp slowdown in economic growth in 2009
AKIPRESS.COM - The Caucasus and Central Asia will face an abrupt slowdown in economic growth from 6% in 2008 to less than 2% in 2009, declared Masood Ahmed, Director of the IMF Department for Middle East and Central Asia during a conference in Bishkek on March 4 organized by the IMF and the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic...