OPEC members will meet next week for talks on implementing an output cut deal, with Russia joining to discuss how producers from outside the group can participate in the plan, according to Venezuela’s oil minister. Ministers from OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Gabon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will attend the meeting in Istanbul,…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman believes that the capabilities of Ukraine are potentially among the best in Europe and in three or five years it will become a successful country. “I am deeply convinced that our capabilities are now among the best in Europe and possibly in the world. I believe the capabilities we…
In the first half of 2016, the United States invested $710 million in Ukraine’s economy, the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported on its Facebook page. “The United States is one of Ukraine’s most important partners, and relations between the countries become even stronger. The total trade turnover has come to $1.2 billion over…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has amended the law on 2016 national budget, expanding expenses on defense and security by 7.1 billion UAH without the increase in the deficit of the national budget. A total of 265 lawmakers backed bill No. 5217 at the session of the parliament. The government’s bill was registered in parliament on October…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said the Cabinet of Ministers plans to approve the starting price of Odessa port-side chemical plant proposed by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF). “We are now looking forward to proposals from the State Property Fund for the next round of the sale of the object. I believe…
Ukraine needs to build the land market that stimulates the economic development of agriculture, Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has said. “First we need to decide what the land market will be. Do you think it does not exist? Of course, it does. It exists, but in the way that limits the development of agriculture…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts Ukraine’s GDP at the level of 2.5% in 2017, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. In particular, according to the table with data on CIS countries, Ukraine’s real GDP totaled minus 9.9% in 2015, while in 2016 it is estimated at 1.5%, and is projected at 2.5% in…