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Investment Potential of Brest Region Investment potential of Brest region The population of Brest Region is mostly active in the Out of the total workforce of Brest Region, over 24% has industry (24.5%), agriculture, hunting & forestry (14.3%), higher education, 44% has either a vocational or specialised trade (12.7%) . secondary education. POPULATION ACTIVE IN SECTORS OF ECONOMY, 2012 WORKFORCE QUALIFICATIONS, 2012 (thsd. persons) (thsd. persons) Workforce, total 535 100 Total active 628.1 including those with educational level as follows: including: higher 130 099 Industry 153.7 vocational 112 068 Agriculture 90.0 specialised secondary 125 547 Trade 79.5 general secondary 154 997 Education 65.6 Source: National Statistics Committee Transport and communications 53.3 of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 Construction 46.7 Healthcare and social services 45.5 2. Region’s economy 1. Labour resources Real estate, lease and business services 26.8 The principal sectors of the region's economy are light Public, social and personal services 22.5 industry, food industry, electrical power engineering, machinery construction, production of construction stone. Employment by sector of economy (%), 2012 Other 16.6 Brest region The region specialises in production of incandescent electric Energy production and distribution 15.7 lamps, compression-type machines, single-bucket mechanical Hotels and restaurants 12.2 self-propelled excavators, cookers, chip boards, cotton fabric. industry Source: National Statistics Committee Large industrial centres are Brest, Baranovichi, Pinsk, Kobrin, 2.5 1.9 of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 Beryoza. 2.6 agriculture The agriculture specialises in production of meat and milk, The official unemployment level in 2012 in the region is 0.9% cultivation of potatoes, grain, sugar beet, and vegetables. trade 3.6 of the economically active population, which exceeds the 4.3 24.5 education national index by 0.4%. The average monthly salary in the 7.2 region amounts to 87% of the relevant index in the country. GROSS REGIONAL PRODUCT (GRP), 2012 transport & communications 7.4 2011 2012 14.3 construction Average salary, 2012 Unemployment level, 8.5 (thsd. roubles) 2012 (%) healthcare & social work Total (bln. roubles) 24 682.8 48 335.9 10.4 12.7 5000 real estate activities, leasing 4000 Per capita (mln. roubles) 17.7 34.8 3 GRP share in GDP of 3000 .1 public, social & personal . 0.9 9 9.2 Belarus (%) services 2000 3676 other 3185 0.5 1000 Real GRP growth rate (%) 101.2 100.5 energy production & 0 Source: National Statistics Committee distribution Republic of Brest region Republic of Brest region of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 hotels & restaurants Belarus Belarus www.investinbelarus.by e-mail: [email protected] Investment potential of Brest region 90% of the total volume of industrial production is provided 3. Foreign trade •export-oriented and import-substituting production; by the processing industries (production of food products, •production and processing of agricultural products; machines and equipment, nonmetallic mineral products, Around 80 per cent of the land export of the CIS countries to •development of roadside service infrastructure; electric equipment, electronic and optical equipment, the Western Europe crosses Brest Region. This determines •development of tourist services (along the principal chemical production, textile and sewing industries, wood- high development of goods services exports in the region. transportation corridors, in the towns with valuable historical processing and production of wood products). and cultural heritage, Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park). With its volume of the gross regional product Brest Region VOLUME OF FOREIGN TRADE IN GOODS, 2012 (mln. USD) occupies the 5th place after the city of Minsk, Gomel, and In Brest Region over 500 companies with foreign investment Republic of have been registered. First three places in the number Minsk Region. Brest region Belarus of joint and foreign companies are shared by Poland, Germany, and Russia. Share of Brest region in the country’s GDP, Turnover 4 319.4 92464.3 2012 (%) Exports 2 196.1 46 059.9 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, net, 2012 (mln. USD) Minsk City Imports 2 123.3 46 404.4 Minsk region Republic of Belarus 1 376.5 15.3 24.1 Balance 72.8 -344.5 7.6 Gomel region Brest region 64.9 Source: National Statistics Committee 8.0 14.8 Vitebsk region Source: National Statistics Committee of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 9.2 9.3 11.7 Brest region Grodno region Trade companies of the region provide for a sixth of the The overall number of companies registered on the territory country's trade. The region's geographical location ensures of Brest Free Economic Zone is 88 as of January 1st, 2013, 62 Mogilev region favourable conditions for international trade. of them have foreign capital. Undistributed part Companies of Brest Region develop trade and economic co- operation with over 100 countries of the world. 700 Examples of successful operation of companies with foreign Largest enterprises by industries: companies of all types of ownership and entrepreneurs investment in the region are • light and textile industries (Polesye Pinsk Manufacturing perform export and import operations. • JV Santa Bremor (sea products processing); Group, Baranovichi Cotton Group OJSC, Brest Hosiery Factory • PC Gefest –Technika (production of gas-, electric stoves and OJSC, Brest Carpets OJSC); In Brest Region a positive foreign-trade balance is ensured. cookers, kitchen air cleaners and ventilation pipes); • food production (Savushkin Produkt OJSC, Zhabinka Sugar The principal foreign-trade partners of Brest Region are • FE Inco-Food (meat processing); Factory OJSC, Santa-Bremor OJSC, FC Inko-Food, Brest Meat- Russia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Lithuania, France, • STiM Ltd. (equipment and machines, paints for road Processing Factory OJSC, First Chocolate Company JLLC, the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA. marking); Belsolod OJSC, Berioza Meat Processing Plant OJSC); In Brest Region a positive foreign-trade balance is ensured. • CJSC Involux (furniture production); • wood-processing (Baranovichdrev OJSC, Luninetsles OJSC, The principal foreign-trade partners of Brest Region are • Vegas LLC. (orthopedic mattresses manufacture); Ivatsevichdrev OJSC, Pinskdrev CJSC, Involux CJSC, BRV-Brest Russia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Lithuania, France, • and many others. FC LLC); the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA. Since May 1998 Brest Region has been a member of the • engineering (Brestgazoapparat JV, Tsvetotron Plant RUE, transborder Bug Euroregion which includes Lublin Province Gefest-Tekhnika UE, JofeLabortechnik JLLC, Baranovichi Plant 4. Foreign investment of Poland and Volyn Region of Ukraine as well. for Automatic lines OJSC). The priority areas of investment attraction to the region are •high-technology and innovation projects: •high-technology and innovation projects; www.investinbelarus.by e-mail: [email protected] Investment potential of Brest region 5. Transport and communications Expenses for R&D in Brest Region amount to 1% of the EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, 2012 national expenses. • The length of general motorways is 10.7 thousand km. No. of higher educational institutions 4 R&D expenses by region and Minsk City, 2012 • The length of operating tracks of general purpose railway transport is 1062 km. No. of R&D organisations 30 1.2 • Brest railway junction is one of the largest ones in Central 1.2 Europe and it completely ensures transit of Western 2.1 European countries to the CIS countries in Moscow and St. Personnel engaged in R&D 421 2.7 Petersburg directions. Large railway junctions are located in 5.0 Brest, Baranovichi, Luninets, and Zhabinka. Expenses for R&D (million roubles) 36 451 Brest region • The international transportation corridor Berlin-Warsaw- No. of organisations active in 7.5 Grodno region Brest-Minsk-Moscow and a direct way to Vilnius and Kyiv 63 cross Brest Region. innovations Mogilev region • Druzhba oil pipeline and Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichi and Source: National Statistics Committee Vitebsk region Kobrin-Brest-Warsaw cross the region. of the Republic of Belarus, 2013 • Brest airport of class IV (located 17 km to the East from Minsk region Brest) has the status of an international one; at present th Brest Region occupies the 4 place among the regions as to Gomel region Gomelavia airline operates regular flights from Brest airport. the number of R&D organisations. 80.4 • The distance from Brest to Minsk is 345 km. Minsk City R&D organizations by region and Minsk City, 2012 6. Education and science In Brest Region there are 4 state higher educational 4.0% institutions, 29 research, design, and survey institutions and 4.2% Among the total expenses for R&D in Brest Region 70% is for organisations. The research potential of the region is mostly Minsk City pilot projects development. 5.3% oriented towards applied research. Higher educational 5.1% Minsk region institutions engage in research in the field of biology, sewage R&D expenses distribution by type, mln. roubles Brest region treatment, development of new types of construction Gomel region materials. 6.8% The following organisations function in Brest Region: Brest region 7.5% • technical park of Centre of Technological Development Vitebsk region Introduction BRMUC; 67.2% Pilot projects 25 063 • research and technological park of Brest Innovation Grodno region Business Centre LLC. Mogilev region Applied research 7 553 Fundamental 3 217 research www.investinbelarus.by e-mail: [email protected] .
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