To assess economic activity and industrial development in four regions of Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
To assess economic activity and industrial development in four regions of Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
²n the following ten chapters authors move from the general to the specific, beginning with macroeconomic policies, social policy, fiscal federalism and investment policy, and moving to more specific policies in the areas of private insurance, lending, agriculture, utilities and energy.
To identify and describe the main components of the trade regime in Ukraine, to analyse revenues in the form of payments related to foreign trade (import duties, fees, etc..) to describe non-tariff barriers.
Recent developments on the Ukrainian food market have been marked by a sharp increase in wholesale and retail prices for the majority of food products. Food price increases could not leave poor consumers unaffected, and have caused widespread public concern. As a result, government agricultural policy has been re-oriented towards more intensive administrative interference.
Simplified taxation was implemented in 1998, and was not reformed afterwards. The common feature of "simplified" taxes is that they are substitutes for several types of taxes, as well as social insurance contributions. However, current system of social insurance, developed in 1998-2001, does not take into account the specifics introduced by simplified taxation schemes.
The existence of fairly large state sector in Ukraine determines the necessity finding the most efficient ways of managing state property in general and financial relations between the state and state-owned enterprises.
In our recent policy paper S34 we suggested that the government should compensate former Sberbank depositors by giving them "compensation bonds" with different maturities from 1 to 25 years. To make sure that these bonds do not lose much value during time, they should be indexed.
The book describes a strategy in which government intervention that now plays a dominant role is being reduced so that it is market forces, not intervention schemes competitive way to meet the needs of production, distribution of production resources, pricing and investment.