Industry and IT sector will remain drivers of economic growth in Belarus in 2022
December 4, Minsk / Corr. BELTA /. In Belarus, in 2022, the industry and the IT sector will remain the drivers of economic growth. Deputy Head of the President Dmitry Krutoy said this in an interview with the TV channel “Belarus 1”, BelTA informs.
Meanwhile, international observers are voicing more modest parameters. “Not a single forecast of international experts for the past 5 years on the Belarusian economy has come true.”, Dmitry Krutoy said.
According to him, in 2022, Belarus’s GDP will be influenced by four factors: sanctions pressure and the fight against it; coronavirus and its new strains, the response of the world economy; internal mobilization in the country, saving all types of resources and avoiding unnecessary spending, especially in the budgetary sphere; export, maintaining the pace of foreign trade.
“The industrial complex will develop at a faster pace than the rest of the economy as a whole. Industry growth is 3.3–3.5%, ”said Dmitry Krutoy.
As for the IT sector, he drew attention to the fact that it also occupies 7.5% of the structure and continues to develop successfully: “Plus 11 thousand people have appeared in our HTP over the past year and a half. And next year they plan to provide exports of about $ 3.5 billion.