Archive 2010

• 17.12.2010

  Credit Bureaus in Ukraine: Analysis and Recommendations

  (Code:PP_07_2010)

  Credit bureaus are still a relatively new feature in Ukraine’s financial infrastructure. After a comprehensive legal framework for their operations was established in 2005, which is in line with relevant EU legislation, the first bureaus received their licences in 2007. Currently, there are seven credit bureaus operating in Ukraine.

  Authors:  Kravchuk Vitaliy, Кірхнер Роберт, Джуччі Рікардо
  Tags:  German Advisory Group
• 17.09.2010

  Staw use in Ukraine - opportunities and options

  (Code:AgPP_31)
  Policy paper on the profitability of straw use presents encouraging results for straw heating in rural areas in Ukraine. Straw-fired boilers based on Danish technology show already today interesting profitability indicators. In future, straw pellets will most likely offer interesting opportunities on domestic and international markets. Even building materials may be produced from straw. This will encourage domestic and international investments
  Authors:  Kuznetsova Anna
  Tags:  Agricultural dialogue
• 17.09.2010

  The Agriculture Knowledge and Information System in Ukraine - Call for Reforms

  (Code:AgPP_30)
  Policy paper presents results of the analysis of the Ukrainian higher education and research system in agricultural economics. We consider a modern Agricultural Knowledge and Information System as a crucial element for a modern agriculture and food sector. Investment in people pays high dividends. However, such investments only lead to the desired results if the incentives in the system would stimulate quality, young people, performance, cost-effectiveness, international orientation and competition. In Ukraine the system is changing too slowly with too little incentives to become world-class.
  Authors:  Крістофер Шуман, Алекс Ліссітса, Ульріх Кьостер
  Tags:  Agricultural dialogue
  Research spheres:  Agrarian sector
• 26.08.2010

  Implications of recent developments in global and European natural gas markets for Ukraine

  (Code:PP_06_2010)
  The global gas market is experiencing a revolution. Shale gas is dramatically changing the structure of gas production. Increasing production of shale gas has made the US the biggest gas producer in the world.
  Authors:  Naumenko Dmytro, Захманн Георг
  Tags:  German Advisory Group, natural gas
• 03.08.2010

  Reforming the Simplified Taxation for Individual Entrepreneurs in Ukraine

  (Code:PP_05_2010)

  The administrative cost of running a business can be quite significant. In the case of individual entrepreneurs such cost could become rather prohibitive, given the limited size of economic activity of average individual entrepreneurs. For this reason, most countries decided to adopt simplified systems of accounting and taxation for these economic agents.

  Authors:  Betliy Oleksandra, Otten Thomas, Кірхнер Роберт, Джуччі Рікардо
  Tags:  German Advisory Group, tax
• 22.05.2010

  FDI Promotion in Ukraine: Blueprint for a Restart

  (Code:PP_04_2010)
  Foreign direct investments (FDI) could act as a motor for economic growth and welfare, making an important contribution to reach the ambitious objectives of Ukraine’s economic reform agenda. The most important benefit of FDI is the generation of knowledge spill-over (technology, skills, experience). Advanced technological and economic knowledge increases long-term sustainable growth potential und thus improves Ukraine’s global competitiveness. Therefore, both FDI promotion and strengthening Ukraine’s domestic firms are complementary economic policy measures.
  Authors:  Кнут Олександр, Чухай Анна, Джуччі Рікардо
  Tags:  economic growth, FDI, investment
• 22.04.2010

  Credit Crunch in Ukraine: Facts, Causes, and How to Restart Lending

  (Code:PP_03_2010)
  Currently, one of the most hotly discussed topics is the alleged worsening in access to finance by many companies, a claim made by many policy makers and the business community. This discussion about a credit crunch takes place simultaneously in many countries all over the world, including transition countries like Ukraine but also developed countries such as Germany.
  Authors:  Kravchuk Vitaliy, Кірхнер Роберт, Джуччі Рікардо
  Tags:  bank, credit, crisis, German Advisory Group
• 20.04.2010

  Trade policy in Ukraine: Strategic aspects and next steps to be taken

  (Code:PP_02_2010)

  Two years after Ukraine’s WTO accession in May 2008, policy makers have once again to take strategic decisions as to future trade policy of the country. It is hard to overestimate the importance of such decisions, since they do not only affect trade flows, but also the speed of structural reforms, an issue of practically same importance as trade itself.

  Authors:  Movchan Veronika, Куценко Катерина, Джуччі Рікардо
  Research spheres:  Monetary policy and financial markets, Politics, Regional policy, Fiscal and Social Policy
• 15.04.2010

  Sustainability requirements for biofuels in the EU: implications for Ukrainian producers of feedstocks

  (Code:AgPP 29)

  The EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), called to amend and subsequently repeal existing Biofuel and Renewable Electricity Directives, became effective from June 25, 2009. It specified new renewable energy targets and established binding sustainability criteria for certain types of biofuels. The biofuels and biomass that fail to meet the sustainability requirements are not counted towards new ambitious renewable energy targets and are excluded from the EU and national support programs.

  Authors:  Kandul Serhiy
  Tags:  Agricultural dialogue, Center of economic research
  Research spheres:  Infrastructure
• 05.04.2010

  Changing Ukraine's Accounting and Reporting System: Economic Necessity and Practical Reform Steps

  (Code:PP_01_2010)

  The cost of paying corporate taxes is a major determinant of the business climate in any country. In the case of Ukraine corporate tax rates are not excessive, but the administrative burden of paying taxes is extremely high, due to a very complicated and inefficient tax accounting and reporting system.

  Authors:  Otten Thomas, Кірхнер Роберт, Джуччі Рікардо
  Research spheres:  Infrastructure, Real sector