Economy Ministry: Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2011 will amount to 4.5%
2011-02-09 16:27:24
The Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has predicted that real GDP growth in Ukraine in 2011 will amount to 4.5%, according to the ministry's explanatory note to the main forecast macroeconomic figures for the current year.
The main external prerequisites for GDP growth, according to the forecast, are an increase in the price of imported natural gas and a moderate increase in world prices on certain commodity markets.
The main domestic prerequisites for GDP growth are holding a well-considered social policy, improving the investment climate, strengthening the banking system's lending to the real economy, holding in the public sector the policy aimed at maintaining the real economy under conditions of measures to improve social standards, and optimizing the tariff policy in the sphere of natural monopolies, which foresees a reduction in subsidies, etc.