Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan

Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in opening of educational seminar on National rating of investment climate in Russian regions

18 October 2014, Saturday

On October 17, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov took part in opening of the educational seminar on the National rating of the investment climate in Russian regions at Tatarstan Government House.

The event is held in the format of video conference with the participation of all Tatarstan municipal regions.

Speaking at the event, Rustam Minnikhanov noted that it is the first regional educational seminar held by non-profit organization “Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects” (ASI). He thanked the organization for their work and noted that studying the investment climate in constituent entities of the federation is very important, and issues of increasing investment attractiveness of Tatarstan and creation of innovative economy need to be worked out.

Director of The Boston Consulting Group Igor Kustarin made a keynote report at the seminar. He told about goals and tasks of the National rating, its methodology and presented areas of Tatarstan development.

The National rating of the investment climate in Russian regions is a joint project of top business associations and Agency for Strategic Initiatives aimed at objective assessment of activity of authorities on improving business climate in regions. Main principle of the rating is to compare regions in accordance with 54 indicators regardless of geographical, climatic and infrastructure conditions.

Read more here http://www.asi.ru/regions/rating/

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