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Friday, July 1
Ukraine is considering its options to restructure debt.

Ukraine is considering its options to restructure debt.  Ukrainian officials are exploring the possibility of debt restructuring as the war-ravaged country’s funding options are at risk of depletion, according to three people familiar with the discussions,...

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Tuesday, May 31
The new program with the IMF should support macro-financial stability.

The new program with the IMF should support macro-financial stability. The new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should become an essential element in supporting macroeconomic stability, said the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Kyrylo Shevchenk...

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Monday, April 18
The IMF has downgraded the global economy’s outlook due to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The IMF has downgraded the global economy’s outlook due to Russia’s war against Ukraine.  IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that global economic growth in 2022-2023 will decline even more than previously forecast, covering 143 countries worldwide. “In January, we lower...

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  • #ukraine
Monday, April 11
The money from the IMF will be spent on budget needs.

The money from the IMF will be spent on budget needs. The National Bank of Ukraine thanked the countries through whose initiatives the International Monetary Fund has created a special account to support Ukraine. The funds will go to the needs of the bud...

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Monday, March 28
The war between Russia and Ukraine will lead to famine in the Middle East.

The war between Russia and Ukraine will lead to famine in the Middle East.  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could destabilize the Middle East over food problems, stated the IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva.  According to her, the impact on the world economy fro...

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Monday, March 14
Ukraine ends its cooperation with IMF under the Standby program.

Ukraine ends its cooperation with IMF under the Standby program. The Ukrainian authorities have ceased collaboration with the International Monetary Fund within the framework of the Standby program, the second revision of which began a day before the war, reported ...

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Monday, March 7
Ukraine may soon receive more than $4.4B from the IMF and the World Bank.

Ukraine may soon receive more than $4.4B from the IMF and the World Bank.  The World Bank is preparing a $3B aid package for Ukraine in the coming months, and next week the IMF will decide on emergency financing of up to $1.4B. This information comes from a joint statement ...

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Canada, the United States, and Britain demand the removal of the Russian IMF representative.

Canada, the United States, and Britain demand the removal of the Russian IMF representative. Canada, the United States, and Britain have demanded that Alexei Mozhin, Russia’s representative to the IMF, resign or be stripped of his honorary chairmanship, reported Reuters. Mozhin has held...

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Tuesday, March 1
The National Bank of Ukraine is discussing options to support the economy and financial sector of our country during martial law with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The National Bank of Ukraine is discussing options to support the economy and financial sector of our country during martial law with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  It is noted that the Fund’s experts praised all the measures taken by the National Bank to ensure the continuity of the financial system during martial law. Further steps are being discussed, i...

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Thursday, February 24
In Western Ukraine, 16 communities have joined forces to build a waste sorting plant.

In Western Ukraine, 16 communities have joined forces to build a waste sorting plant. The Polyana community in Zakarpattia has signed agreements with 16 surrounding communities to establish a garbage sorting plant. The amount of construction investment is €12M, €9M of which will be sup...

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Monday, February 21
The third tranche from the IMF will come to Ukraine soon.

The third tranche from the IMF will come to Ukraine soon.  According to finance minister Serhiy Marchenko, the IMF could allocate a $700M tranche to Ukraine based on the revision of the stand-by program that expires in June, 2022.  Currently, Ukraine has ful...

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  • #IMFinUkraine
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Thursday, February 3
The IMF is ready to support the countries that will suffer from Russia’s SWIFT disconnection.

The IMF is ready to support the countries that will suffer from Russia’s SWIFT disconnection.  The International Monetary Fund is prepared to help countries that may suffer from any side effects of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and other sanctions imposed by Western governments on Russia. Thi...

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Friday, January 14
Ukraine’s new program of cooperation with the IMF.

Ukraine’s new program of cooperation with the IMF. After completing a joint stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the summer of 2020, Ukraine intends to continue the partnership under a new program, said The Prime Minister, De...

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Friday, November 26
Ukraine has pledged to agree to 12 conditions to receive the next IMF tranche.

Ukraine has pledged to agree to 12 conditions to receive the next IMF tranche. These structural beacons include: to approve the budget for 2022 with a deficit target of 3.5% of GDP; to abolish concessions in the criteria for state representatives in the management of state-owned...

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  • #IMFnewTranch
Monday, November 15

IMF to consider second stand-by tranche for Ukraine on November 22. The IMF Board of Directors plans to approve the results of the first revision of the stand-by program on November 22. In June 2020, the IMF approved a stand-by program for Kyiv with a total volume of ...

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Tuesday, October 19

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ukraine agreed on a tranche of funding of $ 700 million, reported imf.org. The IMF and the Government of Ukraine have signed a preliminary agreement to extend the lending program and provide Ukraine with a tranche of about $700 million. The IMF team and Ukr...

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Thursday, October 14

Ukraine may receive $ 1.4 billion from the IMF in October-December 2021, predicted JP Morgan. “We believe that the IMF will pay a tranche of $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021 but is considering a possible range of this amount from $1 bill...

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Tuesday, September 14

The IMF mission in Ukraine commented on the first revision of the stand-by arrangements to commence on September 21 to September 23, 2021, The IMF Representative in Ukraine, Vladyslav Rashkovan said. “The mission could start working in 10-12 days, and most likely the mission will be virtual,” he said speaking at the YES Brain...

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Wednesday, August 25

The IMF’s generosity is under fire. Its decision to give neighboring Belarus, whose President Alexander Lukashenko is accused of usurping power and accused of dictatorship, about $1 billion, is being strongly criticized by the Belarusia...

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Monday, May 17

The IMF’s decision to distribute $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights this summer is undermining arguments for free market changes in countries like Ukraine, Timothy Ash argues in an essay. He writes from London: “The hope was the looming debt service hump for Ukraine in Q3, when $3bn in external debt falls due, would concentrate minds in the Zelenskiy adm...

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Wednesday, April 28

Adamant Capital yesterday wrote: “The placement occurred with a small (10-20bps) yield premium to the market, suggesting that it was well received, despite the apparent delays in the state’s program with the IMF. The timing suggests ...

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Tuesday, April 20

Ukraine is on track to revive the IMF accord and to receive a $2 billion tranche by September, said Oleh Ustenko, a Presidential Economic Adviser, (Ukraina 24 TV). He said: “The bills we need to pass in order to get the tranche — the judiciary, its reform and the anti-corruption architect...

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Talks with the IMF are progressing and September is a realistic date for the tranche, said Serhiy Marchenko, Finance Minister (LB.ua). “We are now narrowing the range of unresolved issues.” “In January, when there was a mission, there were many issues. Now there are fewer, they should ...

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Tuesday, April 13

Ukraine may receive $2.7 billion from the IMF this summer under a plan by the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, to allocate $650 billion from international reserves to restore the world economy after the coronavirus crisis....

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Alfa-Bank Ukraine wrote: “An easy $2.7 billion from the IMF might arrive in 2021…This allocation might be very helpful as Ukraine faces its next FX debt payment peak in September ($3.1 billion). However, such ‘windfall cash’ ...

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Separately, Shevchenko told Interfax-Ukraine last week that Ukraine should receive two tranches from last June’s $5 billion IMF Stand-by Agreement “given the longer course of negotiations.” Ukraine has been in on-again, off-again talks with the IMF since last fall. He said that he hoped that the Rada will pass legislation in coming weeks so that...

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Wednesday, April 7

The IMF has raised its Ukraine GDP growth to 4% this year, up from its forecast of 3% made six months ago. World GDP is to increase by 6% this year, “reflecting additional fiscal support in a few large economies and the anticipated vaccine-powered recovery in...

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Thursday, April 1

Renewal of Ukraine’s $5 billion IMF agreement depends on “a number of outstanding issues that need to be resolved,” Goesta Ljungman, the IMF’s resident representative, said in a lengthy interview with Interfax-Ukraine. “At this stage, it is not possible to make any predictions about when the review can be completed...

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  • #IMFtranches

Facing $6 billion in external borrowing that are needed this year, Ukraine is “already uncomfortable” without the $3 billion in remaining IMF tranches , Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in a lengthy interview with LIGA. “We have no opportunity to receive income from another source,” he says. “The IMF program is our baseline scenario.” He said ...

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  • #IMFandUkraine
  • #IMFmoney

Separately, Marchenko hopes to reach an IMF staff level agreement soon, he told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. Anti-corruption policy and judicial reform remained outstanding issues in the talks, he said.

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US and IMF support for Ukraine depend on the Zelenskiy Administration taking concrete steps to reform the court system and protect Western-designed anti-corruption institutions, George Kent, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, told VOA last week. Explicitly tying aid to free market changes, he said: “The expectations of Ukrainians and A...

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  • #IMFinUkraine
  • #IMFsupport
  • #UkraineandIMF
Wednesday, December 16
Fueled by foreign investors looking for high yields, the Finance Ministry sold a record $1.85 billion worth of government bonds at auction yesterday

Fueled by foreign investors looking for high yields, the Finance Ministry sold a record $1.85 billion worth of government bonds at auction yesterday Fueled by foreign investors looking for high yields, the Finance Ministry sold a record $1.85 billion worth of government bonds at auction yesterday. Yields on hryvnia bonds ranged from 10% for 3-mont...

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The total amount raised was more than three times the amount raised at last week’s auction.

The total amount raised was more than three times the amount raised at last week’s auction. The total amount raised was more than three times the amount raised at last week’s auction. With two more weekly auctions scheduled this month, the Ministry is expected to cover the budget shortfall b...

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The Rada passed Ukraine’s 2021 budget yesterday. A fiscally conservative document with a deficit of 5.5% of gross domestic product

The Rada passed Ukraine’s 2021 budget yesterday. A fiscally conservative document with a deficit of 5.5% of gross domestic product The Rada passed Ukraine’s 2021 budget yesterday. A fiscally conservative document with a deficit of 5.5% of gross domestic product, slightly less than this year. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said...

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The budget numbers

The budget numbers The budget numbers:

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In another move to get back on track with the IMF, the Rada overwhelmingly approved yesterday two bills to restore powers to a key agency of Ukraine’s new Western-designed anti-corruption machinery.

In another move to get back on track with the IMF, the Rada overwhelmingly approved yesterday two bills to restore powers to a key agency of Ukraine’s new Western-designed anti-corruption machinery. In another move to get back on track with the IMF, the Rada overwhelmingly approved yesterday two bills to restore powers to a key agency of Ukraine’s new Western-designed anti-corruption machinery. T...

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In Washington, Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, warned that the incoming Biden administration will not give a free pass to the Zelenskiy administration

In Washington, Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, warned that the incoming Biden administration will not give a free pass to the Zelenskiy administration In Washington, Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, warned that the incoming Biden administration will not give a free pass to the Zelenskiy administration due to Ukraine’s strategic value in...

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Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons

Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons, Igor Petrashko, minister of Economic Development and Trade, announced yesterday. The fall ended two years of re...

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Despite the drops, Minister Petrashko said the 2020 harvest is “three times more than the needs of the domestic market

Despite the drops, Minister Petrashko said the 2020 harvest is “three times more than the needs of the domestic market Despite the drops, Minister Petrashko said the 2020 harvest is “three times more than the needs of the domestic market, and also allows us to maintain a leading position in the export of agricultural ...

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Thousands of small business owners and workers yesterday protested the impending coronavirus lockdown and end of tax privileges

Thousands of small business owners and workers yesterday protested the impending coronavirus lockdown and end of tax privileges Thousands of small business owners and workers yesterday protested the impending coronavirus lockdown and end of tax privileges, blocking central Kyiv’s Maidan Square and Kreschatyk Street into the ni...

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One quarter of Kyiv restaurants have closed permanently due to coronavirus restrictions this year

One quarter of Kyiv restaurants have closed permanently due to coronavirus restrictions this year One quarter of Kyiv restaurants have closed permanently due to coronavirus restrictions this year, estimates a new study, “Consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic and quarantine measures for the leading...

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Kyiv City has the highest coronavirus infection rate of Ukraine

Kyiv City has the highest coronavirus infection rate of Ukraine Kyiv City has the highest coronavirus infection rate of Ukraine, reports the Health Ministry. In the first half of December, Kyiv’s infection rate was 746 per 100,000 people. Close behind were: Cherka...

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Almost one third of the Rada’s 424 members have had coronavirus since August

Almost one third of the Rada’s 424 members have had coronavirus since August Almost one third of the Rada’s 424 members have had coronavirus since August, reports Dmytro Razumkov, chairman of Ukraine’s one chamber parliament. Currently, 21 MPs and 55 Rada employees are undergo...

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Tuesday, December 15
With the EBRD planning to invest up to $100 billion to help EU coal mining towns shift to new vocations through 2027

With the EBRD planning to invest up to $100 billion to help EU coal mining towns shift to new vocations through 2027 With the EBRD planning to invest up to $100 billion to help EU coal mining towns shift to new vocations through 2027, the Bank held an online conference Friday to promote a similar shift in Ukraine – ...

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Polish tourists traveling to Chervonohrad, a Lviv region border town, will one day visit ‘Nadia,’ a Soviet-era coal mine turned into “industrial museum,”

Polish tourists traveling to Chervonohrad, a Lviv region border town, will one day visit ‘Nadia,’ a Soviet-era coal mine turned into “industrial museum,” Polish tourists traveling to Chervonohrad, a Lviv region border town, will one day visit ‘Nadia,’ a Soviet-era coal mine turned into “industrial museum,” under a plan by Ukraine’s Regional Development...

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The government promises to pay this week $50 million in back wages owed to coal miners across the country

The government promises to pay this week $50 million in back wages owed to coal miners across the country The government promises to pay this week $50 million in back wages owed to coal miners across the country, ruling party Rada Member Vasyl Mokan promised yesterday. About one quarter of the debt is owe...

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Foreign shipping companies will be allowed to carry cargo up and down the Dnipro,

Foreign shipping companies will be allowed to carry cargo up and down the Dnipro, Foreign shipping companies will be allowed to carry cargo up and down the Dnipro, under legislation approved by the Rada recently with President Zelenskiy’s backing. The goal is to triple annual river...

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Ukrainians spent about $150 million last year to buy 3,200 apartments in Poland, making Ukrainians the largest foreign investor group in Polish residential real estate.

Ukrainians spent about $150 million last year to buy 3,200 apartments in Poland, making Ukrainians the largest foreign investor group in Polish residential real estate. Ukrainians spent about $150 million last year to buy 3,200 apartments in Poland, making Ukrainians the largest foreign investor group in Polish residential real estate. The calculations were made by G...

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Low oil prices have saved Ukraine $3 billion so far this year

Low oil prices have saved Ukraine $3 billion so far this year Low oil prices have saved Ukraine $3 billion so far this year, reports the State Customs Service. Through November, Ukraine oil import bill is down 36%, while the import volume is down only 5.6%. The ...

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Ukraine’s power plants reduced their coal consumption by 32% through October and increased their gas use by 31%

Ukraine’s power plants reduced their coal consumption by 32% through October and increased their gas use by 31% Ukraine’s power plants reduced their coal consumption by 32% through October and increased their gas use by 31%, reports Expro.com, citing Energy Ministry numbers. Coal consumption fell to 14.1 millio...

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