Ukraine’s budget deficit of 7.5% is not a problem, according to the Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. He said this during a virtual roundtable meeting entitled “Ukraine Reforms: What Next?” organized by Chatham House. “This is a much smaller deficit than in many European countries, where the deficit can fluctuate at 10%. That is, 7.5% is…
There was a net outflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Ukraine in the first quarter of this year of $1,451 million, reversing the trend of inflows of the last several years, according to data from State Statistics Agency. Ukraine has been attracting foreign investment but at disappointingly low levels. New FDI in 2019 was…
The Hungarian low cost airline Wizz Air has opened the second base in Ukraine at Lviv International Airport. According to the press service of the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine, in July the company will operate five new flights from western Ukraine, in particular, from Lviv to Billund (Denmark), Tallinn (Estonia), Lisbon (Portugal), Hamburg (Germany) and…
The prices of clothing and footwear and healthcare have increased in Georgia, according to the latest inflation data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). The prices in the group of clothing and footwear increased by 5.6% in June. The prices went up for both clothing (+2.8%) and footwear (+11%). Health-related costs went up…
Prices for industrial products fell by 18.1% over the past six months of current year in Kazakhstan, the Statistics Committee reported. While the mining sector has seen prices falling by 34%, the manufacturing sector reported an increase of 0.5% in its products’ prices. Industrial products lost their value by 20.3%, whereas industrial services went up…
The Business Activity Outlook Index (BAOI) calculated by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) grew by 9.6 points in June, to 45.5 points. This is lower than the neutral index reading of about 50 and means that pessimistic expectations of business prevail, the regulator said on its website. “Ukrainian business is gradually recovering from the…
Latvia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will decline by 7.3% this year. Next year the country’s economy will grow by 4.7%, according to international ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (Moody’s). According to Moody’s estimates, Latvia’s credit rating, which is at A3 level, is supported by three main factors – flexible and relatively varied economy, the…