The IMF Executive Board discussed Program Monitoring with Board involvement (PMB) for Ukraine. It is designed to help Ukraine maintain stability and catalyze donor financing. “The 4-month PMB, which has been approved by IMF Management, is designed to help Ukraine maintain stability and catalyze donor financing amid very large balance of payment needs and exceptionally…
Georgia exported locally produced goods worth $5.03 billion in January-November, up by 31.8% YoY, preliminary data from the national statistics office of Georgia showed. Geostat said local exports in the country had accounted for 67.6% of total exports in the reporting period, amounting to $3.40 billion, up by 21.2%. Georgia’s top trading partners were: China…
The total outstanding debts of Polish consumers grew by PLN 4.9 billion (EUR 1.04 billion) over the twelve months till October and reached PLN 77.4 billion (EUR 16.50 billion), a debt registry reported. According to BIG InfoMonitor and the BIK debtor database, about 2.7 million Poles had problems with paying their debts as of October.…
59% of Poles are planning to spend no more than PLN 100 (EUR 21) on Christmas gifts for a single person this year, a survey has found. 47% of people declared the PLN 50-100 price range and 12% are planning to spend even less than PLN 50, according to a survey by UCE Research and…
The Ukrainian women who have fled to Lithuania are not waiting for social payments or assistance from the state. While some go to work, others take matters into their hands and start businesses from scratch. Natalia Nesterenko and Yekaterina Semenyuk were running a dairy business in Kyiv before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.…
Poland’s core inflation, which excludes the prices of food and energy, measured 11.4% YoY in November, up from 11% in October, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) said. Inflation excluding fixed prices amounted to 18.1% YoY in November, down from 18.7% in the previous month. Inflation excluding the most volatile items measured 15% in November,…
Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war would be issued only digital temporary residence permits in Lithuania from next year, the Migration Department said on December 16. Such residence permits will be issued to both new arrivals and those already in the country. “The digitisation of this process will save a lot of time for Ukrainian refugees,…