Amendments to State Budget of Azerbaijan for 2020 : Reasons and Expectations

Nowadays, global economic growth has been severely affected beyond anything passed in nearly acentury. The outbreak of the coronavirus disease has brought its negative impact and destructiveoutcome on the economies alongside with the sharp fluctuations in global energy and stock markets. There might be observed a subsequent sharp decline in the number of transactions and practical shutdown of many markets due to the large-scale quarantine and self-isolation measures. Taking into consideration the above mentioned factors, it becomes clear that there emerged a need to revise all economic forecasts for 2020-2021. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted a decline of the global economic growth rate in April (-3%), but in accordance with the current circumstances, the figures were revised in June, representing a 4.9% decrease. In spite of a fact that Azerbaijan became one of the first countries among the post-soviet countries,that allocated the largest share of GDP, in order to eliminate the economic problems caused due tothe pandemic, the impact of the emerged difficulties made a necessity to revise the budget