Azerbaijan, Tovuz / Trend corr N. Fatullayeva / This year 457 jobs were opened in Azerbaijan's Tovuz region: 424 permanent and 51 temporary, the head of Tovuz Region Executive Power, Tofig Zeynalov, reported.
According to him, 85% of the new jobs were opened in the private sector. After adoption of the State Program on Social and Economic Development of Azerbaijani Regions some 11,401 jobs were opened in the region with 7,592 of them permanent, Zeynalov said.
This year AZN 111,000 of privileged credit was allotted to entrepreneurships in compliance with two projects. Owing to these funds additional 21 new jobs were opened in the region, he said.