Annual ranking of the biggest companies in Southeast Europe
The Covid pandemic had a huge effect on exacerbating inequalities across a range of different areas. If you look at women for example, they shouldered the bulk of responsibilities during the Covid period and were more affected by changes in the labour market when some industries basically had to shut down.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) raised its investments in Southeast Europe, a region that has remained particularly vulnerable to the effects of problems in the eurozone, to around 1.65 billion euro in 2013 from 1.5 billion euro in 2012. In 2013, EBRD investments remained strong in Turkey, totalling around 920 million euro. In the Western Balkans and Croatia, the EBRD invested a record 1.2 billion euro in more than 80 projects in 2013.
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) is an international financial institution established by Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Its headquarters are in Thessaloniki, in Greece. BSTDB supports economic development and regional cooperation by providing loans, credit lines, equity and guarantees for projects and trade financing in the public and private sectors in its member countries. The bank’s authorised capital is 3.45 billion euro. BSTDB is rated long-term “A-” by Standard and Poor’s and “A2” by Moody’s.
More than four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent global recession, the impact of the economic crisis is still being felt across emerging economies and nowhere more so than in Southeast Europe.