Current economic trends towards a stronger hryvnia, bigger debts, and imported goods that threaten domestic manufacturers pose serious threats

How international trade relates to economic lag and poverty in Ukraine

What kind of impact is long-term uneven economic growth in Ukraine’s regions likely to have?

Economic growth in most oblasts has reached pre-war levels or even passed them. What prospects does Ukraine face now?

The threat of a new global economic crisis looms

What’s happening with Ukraine’s exports?

Ukraine’s economy will start moving upwards and gain momentum gradually

The unrest in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts has deep underlying causes. Unless removed, they make a prospering Donbas as part of Ukraine a mission impossible

Ukraine is currently the bottom of an economic cycle, but some indicators suggest the first signs of growth. The government’s ambitious reform plan gives hope that the country will bounce back

Having survived a harsh liquidity crunch last year, the Ukrainian banking system now seems fairly stable. This impression is misleading

Governments are putting up impediments to globalisation. It is time for a fresh wave of liberalisation

While tycoons pay most of their taxes offshore, the budget crisis is escalating along with increasing tax pressure on non-oligarch businesses

While the economic crisis in Ukraine escalates, the government focuses exclusively on replenishing the current budget deficit

Emerging economies have enjoyed a steady inflow of capital in recent years. It boosted their development and stock markets. This flow is now reversing, hitting many of them hard. Ukraine is one of the first to suffer

Italian UniCredit Group starts searching for a buyer of UkrSotsBank it acquired six years ago for USD 2bn

Since mid-2011, Ukraine has spent USD 16bn of its international reserves to keep hryvnia exchange rate unchanged. Ex-Finance Minister and current MP Viktor Pynzenyk said this in his interview for Inter TV channel, Ukrayinska Pravda, an online publication, reports

The risk of an abrupt end to capital inflows is now a worry for much of the emerging world, The Economist suggests. Turkey tops the list. Ukraine comes sixth

A profound reboot of Ukraine’s socio-economic system is the only way to transform it from an uncompetitive Soviet fragment to a modern dynamic economy

Ukraine’s seemingly falling foreign trade deficit hides growing negative trends in the economy

Polish reformer Leszek Balcerowicz on how Ukraine can embark on market reforms

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the largest financial investor in Ukraine, plans to start borrowing in hryvnias on the local market to fund further hryvnia lending, Reuters reports

Ukraine and Turkey are among the most vulnerable to an external funding shortfall in emerging markets as investors cut their holdings off the region’s bonds, according to Standard & Poor’s. Reports Bloomberg

Why Ukraine’s economy and public finance are in a much worse state today compared to 2012

High deposit rates with zero inflation, expensive loans and a production sector underfinanced by banks whose funds are channelled to support the cash-starved budget are all results of the government’s detrimental economic policies

Interviewed by Lyubomyr Shavalyuk

To understand how the eurozone crisis may develop – and how it may affect Ukraine – we first need to understand how the euro got into such a mess in the first place.

The Ukrainian Investment Summit in London has once again proved that the Ukrainian government does not take attracting foreign investments very seriously

Despite the global crisis, Ukraine is increasing its foreign debt while producing and selling less and buying more

Attendees at the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos primarily discussed the future of capitalism and a coming “great transformation.” Guests at Viktor Pinchuk’s “Ukrainian dinner” were told, unconvincingly, that Kyiv is on the right track.

Switching to rubles in gas payments may undermine favorable trade agreements and pose currency risks

The government should have embarked on modernizing the Ukrainian economy yesterday. Today, 46 million people are far too many for it. Tomorrow could be even worse

Memories of last-year’s government moves in the agricultural sector are still fuelling prices

The French journalist Camille Magnard speaks about why the ex-CEO of Kryvorizhstal failed to stand the test of Ukrainian reality Camille Magnard’s report about Kryvorizhstal entitled “Arcelor Mittal tested by Ukrainian steel” and broadcast by Radio France Internationale on 2 March 2010, won the Louise Weiss Prize, an annual award from the Francophone section of the Association of European Journalists

The ten-year program to overcome poverty in Ukraine is a fiasco as some regions have actually found themselves on the verge of poverty

A borrower’s reputation and prospects are becoming more important than collateral in lending