The number of registered unemployed people in Ukraine in the last month of 2018 increased by 40,700 MoM and amounted to 341,700, the State Statistics Service has reported, with reference to the State Employment Service. The registered unemployment rate thus increased to 1.3% from 1.2% in November 2018. According to the service, the greatest increase…
In 2018, UAH 729.4 billion of payments were transferred to the general fund of the state budget, up by 15.2% YoY. The government’s press service posted this on its Facebook page. This amount includes UAH 390.6 billion of tax payments and UAH 338.8 billion of customs payments. Thus, the state received important financial resources to…
President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine’s economic growth in 2019 is expected to reach about 3.4% of GDP, which is the highest in eight years. “We hope that this year economic growth will be within 3.4% – this is a record figure in 8 years. But it’s only the beginning of implementation and results…
The World Bank has predicted a decline in real GDP of Ukraine, from 3.5% in 2018 to 2.9% in 2019, which is fundamentally different from the IMF forecasts for Ukraine after the launch of the new Stand-By Arrangement. The World Bank published the relevant data in the report Global Economic Prospects on its official website.…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia, in November 2018, the exports of goods increased by 18% and imports by 15% YoY. The trade deficit was EUR 56 million, dropping under EUR 60 million for the first time since January 2015. In November 2018, the top destination countries of Estonia’s exports were Finland (15% of…
Ukraine’s international reserves in 2018 grew by 10.6% YoY, to $20.820 billion, updating a five-year record, according to the National Bank. The last time such figures were reported was in October 2013. The regulator said the reserves were successfully accumulated due to Ukraine securing external financing and the NBU buying up the excessive currency on…
According to the information released by Statistics Estonia morning, the production of industrial enterprises increased by 8% YoY in November 2018, with production increasing in manufacturing and energy, but decreasing in mining. Total production in manufacturing in November 2018 increased by 8%, with over half of all industry branches exceeding its 2017 November volumes. This…