In September alone, communities received UAH 16.9 billion of transfers from the state: basic, additional, reverse and other subventions. The total sum of transfers this year amounted to more than UAH 109 billion. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a Government meeting on October 10. “In 2024, local authorities will receive over…
The Cabinet of Ministers will double the funding for the micro-grant program for business development; next year it is planned to issue grants worth UAH 3.5 billion, the press service of the Ministry of Economy reports. “We see that the program is in great demand among Ukrainians, so next year we plan to double its…
The International Monetary Fund expects Bulgaria’s GDP growth to slow to 1.7% in 2023 from 3.4% last year, before accelerating to 3.2% in 2024. The fund’s autumn forecast was better than the spring report, according to which Bulgaria’s GDP was expected to grow this year by 1.4%. In spring, however, the IMF expected the Bulgarian…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut Poland’s GDP growth forecast for 2023 to 0.6% from the 1.2% estimated earlier, it has said in its latest edition of the World Economic Outlook. But it also revised up its forecast for 2024 to 2.3% from the 2.2% predicted in an earlier report. At the same time,…
In September, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry raised about UAH 23 billion in the state budget from the placement of war bonds. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry on Facebook. Meanwhile, about UAH 185 billion worth of war bonds were issued in January-September. At the end of September, Ukrainian citizens owned about…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has praised Ukraine’s achievements in anti-corruption policy in five areas, Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) reports. According to the report, a Ukrainian delegation led by NACP Deputy Head Iaroslav Liubchenko took part in the presentation of the report within the 5th round of monitoring of…
On October 2-8, the Customs Service collected over 667.9 million lei (about 33.3 million euros) to the state budget. Private people brought goods with the customs value exceeding the non-taxable limit, and payments totaling over 27.8 million lei were collected, which represented 4.2% of the total amount. The money collected from taxpayers is paid directly…