Brussels and Kyiv have been at loggerheads for over a year and the recent EU-Ukraine summit has not broken the deadlock. Will the fling between the EU and Ukraine that is now a decade...
The consumer price index fell 0.5% from a year ago in February. Prices continued to benefit from favorable supply conditions in 2012 and the government freezing of...
Agricultural output advanced by 5.6% yoy in January 2013, underpinned by solid expansion in animal breeding. Thanks to vigorous wage growth (up by a real 10.2% yoy), retail sales...
On the demand side of GDP, consumer spending, buoyed by growing wages, low inflation and looser fiscal policy, has been remarkably resilient. In 2012, retail sales are...
The slowdown in the Ukrainian economy intensified in August-September, affected by further weakening of the external environment and softening domestic demand. Ukraine’s industrial output fell...
Further deterioration in the external environment and weakening support from domestic drivers of growth weighed on Ukraine’s real sector performance in July. Thus, fears over the Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis, worries of...
According to early State Statistics Committee of Ukraine estimates, real GDP growth accelerated to 3% yoy in 2Q 2012, up from 2% yoy in the previous quarter. The acceleration may be attributed to stronger private consumption, an earlier harvesting campaign and...
The Ukrainian economy accelerated in May despite ongoing weaknesses in external demand. Private consumption, supported by a 15.5% yoy increase in real wages over the first five months of the year, remained the main driver of economic growth in 2012...
