DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE”
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payment systems and the expansion of its coverage zone will be kept in the centre of
attention. The capitalization of the banking system will continue, the expansion of the
banking network in regions will be promoted and the mechanism of mortgage loans will
improve. The electronic payment, post and savings systems will develop and the
protection of the rights of users of banking services will strengthen.
The increasing level of capitalization in insurance companies and the growing range
of insurance products, repeat insurance, as well as the expansion of the use of life
insurance and medical insurance will open the way for the development of the insurance
market in the country. In order to stimulate the insurance of agricultural produce, it is
planned to improve the appropriate legislation. Also, the improvement of the legislative and
institutional environment for the provision of leasing services will allow leasing
organizations to develop and easily enter the market, which will increase the share of
leasing as an important source of finances in implementing the infrastructure and
investment projects of leasing organizations and in improving the supply of equipment to
agriculture.
Important steps will be taken to form a securities market that will provide the
economy with broad capitalization opportunities that meet modern, international standards
and ensure reliable risk management. Systemic measures will be taken in order to limit the
disorganized market of securities and increase the attractiveness of the market for
investors, and the legislation that regulates the activities of the market’s professional
participants and mechanisms of overseeing them.
It is planned to take measures to improve the institutional development level of the
securities market, ensure that it meets international standards, increase the rate of
capitalization in the country’s economy and expand the use of non-inflationary investment
funds directed at the financing of economic projects through the stock market. At the same
time, the formation of appropriate conditions for economic entities and the population to
efficiently place their savings on the stock market and gradually integrate the country’s
securities market into the international capital market will always be in the centre of
attention.
4.2 The improvement of the economic structure and the development of the non-oil sector
During the period covered by the concept, it is planned to build, reconstruct and
modernize systems for the extraction, transportation and refining of oil and gas. Also,
within the framework of the development of the economy on the basis of clusters, it is
planned to build a complex consisting of oil and gas refineries and petrochemical factories.
The establishment of the complex will make it possible to attract the necessary
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