Aslund said the UAH 47,000 — $1,700 – monthly salary cap imposed last April is damaging Ukraine’s civil service.

Aslund said the UAH 47,000 — $1,700 – monthly salary cap imposed last April is damaging Ukraine’s civil service. “The management boards of the big state-owned enterprises are quickly losing their most talented staff,” he wrote, referring to a policy that the IMF sees as one obstacle to extending new low interest loans to Ukraine.