Poroshenko on Doing Business rating: Ukraine to be in TOP-50 soon

Improving business environment in Ukraine will help attract foreign investors and ensure the acceleration of economic growth, the president said.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko considers realistic the country reaching up to the TOP-50 of the World Bank's Doing Business 2018 rating.

"[Ukraine is at the] 76th place in the Doing Business rating. If you ask me if I'm happy, no [I'm not]. I'm absolutely confident that within a short period of time we will be in the TOP 50," he said in the Ukrainian House in Davos, Switzerland.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine topped the ratings among the post-Soviet countries as the largest gainer of the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Ratings since 2010, published by the Financial Times.

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