Kazakh PM urged to explore issue of post-crisis boosting of priority industries

ASTANA. April 20. KAZINFORM. /Kanat Kulshmanov/ Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has urged Vice Premiers Umirzak Shukeyev and Serik Akhmetov to study the issue of interest rate for stimulation of priority economy branches in the post-crisis period.
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"Sooner or later the crisis will be over and the question will be how to stimulate those sectors which will ensure economic diversification", said the PM. According to the Premier, one of the mechanisms of economic diversification is subsidizing of interest rates. ?In case the interest rate in sectors is close to zero, the project?s economy will be changed. It is high time to move in this direction. However, the risks should be assumed by banks?, K. Massimov said.
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