{"id":573481,"date":"2026-09-03T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=573481"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:05:22","slug":"lukashenka-wants-to-exceed-gdp-growth-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-wants-to-exceed-gdp-growth-target","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Wants to Exceed GDP Growth Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> hinted during a report by Minsk City Executive Committee Chairman <b>Uladzimir Kukharau<\/b> that he wants to see higher gross domestic product growth figures.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For the country, God willing, we will reach 3% \u2014 that is the target I am setting. Belarus&#8217;s GDP must increase by 3%. We need to bring it up to 3% by the end of the year. And you should try to reach 3.5%, you need to achieve that&#8221;<\/em>, Lukashenka said, according to his press service.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka approved the forecast for the country&#8217;s socio-economic development for 2026 in a decree at the end of last year. It envisages GDP growth of only 2.8%. In January-July, the indicator increased by 2.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka hinted during a report by Minsk City Executive Committee Chairman Uladzimir Kukharau that he wants to see higher gross domestic product growth figures. &#8220;For the country, God willing, we will reach 3% \u2014 that is the target I am setting. Belarus&#8217;s GDP must increase by 3%. We need to bring it up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":573480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a9970957ed0f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Wants to Exceed GDP Growth Target"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}