Ukraine’s public and publicly guaranteed debt has amounted to UAH 2.14 trillion (about $74 billion), Head of the State Treasury Service Tetiana Sliuz said during a public report on the activities of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine for 2017. “Of course, publicly guaranteed debt actually reaches trillions. As of January 1 it amounted to…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said Ukraine has yet to live up to its potential and ensure steady, fast economic growth. “So far, we have not been able to execute our ambitious plan to provide for steady, fast economic growth we are capable of,” Groysman said. Groysman added that many reforms had been launched…
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis expects laws on the continuing tax reform to be passed by the parliament by July and to take effect in early 2019. According to Skvernelis, the reform will include an overhaul of second-pillar pension systems and amendments aimed at reducing the tax burden “both on labor and the overall (tax burden),…
Azerbaijan’s GDP volume reached around 6.05 billion manats in January 2018, up by 2% YoY, according to a report of the State Statistics Committee. The volume of GDP per capita stood at 618.5 manats. In January the volume of GDP produced in the non-oil sector of the country increased by 3.9%, while a decline of…
The final data on the year 2017 by the European Union statistical bureau Eurostat showed that both the economy of the EU and the euro area had expanded at the quickest pace since 2007. Economist Ryan Djajasaputra of the South-African, British banking group Investec evaluated that much of the growth in 2017 had been driven…
The economic sentiment indicator in Ukraine, calculated by the State Statistics Service, in the first quarter of 2018 was 110.1% compared with 104.3% and 105% in the fourth and third quarters of 2017 respectively, indicating its transition to the stage of recovery. According to the service, three out of the five indicators of business confidence…
Revenues of local budgets in Ukraine grew by 31% or by UAH 45.3 billion due to the decentralization reform carried out in 2017, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote on his Facebook page. “665 united territorial communities have already been created in Ukraine. Territorial communities receive millions of hryvnias for infrastructure development: they buy equipment for…