In addition to financial resources, extractive companies could provide knowledge and technical capacity while at the same time gaining insight into new and potentially profitable feedstocks.

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"It is true that the main resources and capital was concentrated in the banking, construction and extractive industries, " said Prime Minister Masimov in the BBC interview, stressing that the nation could develop its IT industry and become a regional IT hub.

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