On September 27, 2021, held the next online scientific seminar at the Institute of Economics of ANAS. Opening the seminar, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of ANAS, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor Allahyar Muradov gave information about the main topic of discussion of the event and the speaker
The leading researcher of the department “Development problems of services areas”, Ph.D. in Economics, assoc.prof., Kamran Abdullayev made a report on “Directions for further improvement of Azerbaijan's position in the international comparative rankings for transport services (Global Competitiveness Index).”
The rapporteur said that studied the International Competitiveness Report compares the state of transport infrastructure and quality of road infrastructure, density of railways, efficiency of railway services, connectivity of airports, efficiency of air transport services, seaport services with the countries of the region and advanced countries.
In the International Competitiveness Report, Azerbaijan ranks 38th among 141 countries in terms of infrastructure sub-index and 31st in terms of transport infrastructure. Azerbaijan is ahead of Georgia (73rd place), Iran (80th place), Russia (50th place), Turkey (49th), Kazakhstan (67th) and Ukraine (57th) in terms of infrastructure sub-index. In addition, the report ranks 88th among 141 countries in terms of road network quality, 27th in terms of road infrastructure quality, 34th in terms of railway density, 11th in terms of efficiency of railway services, 79th in terms of airport connections, and air transport. It is ranked 12th in terms of service efficiency and 25th in terms of seaport services efficiency.
Then the speaker answered questions, held interesting and wide-ranging discussions on the real situation in our country in all areas of transport, transport projects of local and international importance, future development of the transport sector, major trends in this field and international experience (economics.com.az).
