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UKRAINE POSTS HIGHEST INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GROWTH IN FORMER CIS FOR JANUARY 2004
  

Interfax, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, 03.03.2004

Moscow. (Interfax) - Ukraine posted the highest year-on- year industrial output growth in the CIS in January 2004 at 16.1%, the CIS Interstate Statistics Committee said Wednesday.

Production grew 14.4% in Georgia, 11.3% in Belarus, 8.9% in Moldova, 8.7% in Kazakhstan, 7.5% in Russia, 4.7% in Tajikistan, 4% in Azerbaijan, and 2.2% in Kyrgyzstan. Production dropped 8.9% in Armenia. The statistics committee does not have figures for Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.

GDP was up 9.9% in Azerbaijan, 9% in Ukraine, 8.2% in Belarus, 8.1% in Tajikistan, 4.4% in Armenia, and 3.9% in Kyrgyzstan. Goods and services production in Russia's core industries grew 7.6%.

Inflation was highest in Armenia at 2.5%. Inflation was 2% in Azerbaijan, 1.9% in Belarus, 1.8% in Russia, 1.5% in Moldova, 1.4% in Ukraine, 1% in Kyrgyzstan, 0.7% in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, and 0.4% in Georgia.

Producers prices grew 4.2% in Russia, 3.9% in Belarus, 2.3% in Kazakhstan, 1.7% in Tajikistan, 1.6% in Ukraine, 1.3% in Azerbaijan, 1.1% in Armenia, and 0.9% in Kyrgyzstan. In Georgia, producers prices slid 0.05%.


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