The Deposit Guarantee Fund last week sold insolvent banks’ assets worth UAH 410 million, the fund’s press service reported. “Last week (May 18-22) the assets of eight banks, which were in the management of the Fund, were sold for a total sum of UAH 410.01 million,” reads the report. In particular, UAH 205.20 million was…
Services worth UAH 227 billion were sold in Ukraine in January-March, down by 1.7% YoY, according to the State Statistics Service. “In the first quarter of 2020, the volume of services provided by enterprises in the field of consumer services amounted to UAH 227 billion, or 98.3% of the volume provided in the relevant quarter…
State Employment Service said the number of unemployed in Ukraine grew by 64% YoY as of May 20, to 501,000 people. At the same time, the number of vacancies is 51,000. This is almost 55% fewer than last year, the report said. The average wage for existing vacancies is UAH 7,000 ($262). Today there is…
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine restrictions, remittances from Ukrainian migrant workers are expected to amount to $10 billion in 2020, which is $2 billion less than last year, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). “Labor migration is a difficult topic. About 3 million Ukrainians work abroad. Some of them are seasonal…
In 2019, local budgets received UAH 4.9 billion in revenues from real estate taxes, up by UAH 1.2 billion YoY, according to the Finance Ministry. “Local budgets received UAH 4.9 billion from the payment of real estate taxes in 2019 and UAH 3.7 billion in 2018,” the statement reads. Failure to pay taxes on real…
The directors of departments of the economy ministries of Ukraine and Poland, Oleksiy Rozhkov and Jan Pawelec, discussed the dynamics of bilateral economic cooperation in the first quarter during a videoconference, Ukraine’s Embassy in Poland reported on Facebook. “The directors of departments of the economy ministries of Ukraine and Poland, Oleksiy Rozhkov and Jan Pawelec,…
Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry predicts poverty in Ukraine will have grown to 45% by late 2020, up by 6.5% YoY. According to M.V. Ptukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, poverty in 2019 was 38.5%, down by 4.7%. “Thus, media reports about a “sharp increase in poverty…