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In December 2015, inflation slowed down to 0.7% against November 2015, from 2% recorded a month earlier.

As UNIAN reported ealier, Ukraine’s main creditor, the IMF, forecast a 2% growth in 2016. The IMF forecast for inflation coincided with that of the Ukrainian government: 45.8% in 2015 and 12% in 2016. The World Bank was a bit more pessimistic in its forecasts. The Bank believes that Ukraine’s economy will decline by 12% in 2015, with a 2016 increase not exceeding 1%.