The salary continues to be the main source of livelihood in Moldova, IPN reports, quoting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar, who presented the projected macroeconomic indicators for this year and for a medium term in a meeting.
“They say the money coming from relatives working abroad save the population of Moldova. The remittances indeed play an important role in the budgets of many families. According to the data for the second quarter of this year, they represented 16.4% of the people’s monthly incomes. But the salaries represent 43.7% of the population’s incomes. Together with the social payments from the state, they represent about 60% of the total revenues of the population. That’s why we make effort to increase the salaries, to create highly paying new jobs at home and to convince by different programs the Moldovans working abroad to invest their savings in small businesses and to contribute to the creation of new workplaces,” said Valeriu Lazar.
According to him, the nominal average monthly salary this year will increase by 10% on 2012, to 3,825 lei. In real terms, the rise will be 5.7%. In the next three years, the Government will raise the salaries by 4-5% a year.
“We will continue to develop the industries, including new ones based on advanced technology, so as to avoid the negative trend in the economy, when salaries grow quicker than productivity,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the monthly disposable incomes of the population in the second quarter were 1,667.2 lei on average per person, up 9.8% in nominal terms and 4.4% in real terms compared with the corresponding period last year. The average pension on July 1, 2013 was 1,020.8 lei. It was by 6.6% higher than last year in nominal terms and by 1.1% in real terms.
