Tailoring costs in Ukraine are four times lower than those in China, and for production of products for world brands, while a Ukrainian seamstress would get only about 0.5% of the price of clothing sold in European stores. The absolute majority of Ukrainian factories are export-oriented, TSN reports.
The average nominal wage of a full-time employee in Ukraine in October 2017 increased by 0.4% from September 2017 and by 37.9% from October 2016, to UAH 7,377 (US$274.5), according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman is confident that the country's economic growth in 2018 will top 3%, the benchmark stipulated in the draft national budget.
Instead of Russian salaries and pensions, of which crowds dreamed on the squares in 2014, the residents of the so-called "DPR" (self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic) now receive handouts that do not match the size of even those payments they had received before the war, journalist Denis Kazansky wrote on his website.