Investor Presentaiton
Challenging reforms start bearing fruit (1/2)
Public
governance
Public
finance
Business
climate
Key areas
Parliament: pro-Western parties held majority
of mandates after the snap elections
▷ Decentralization: transfer of budgetary powers
to local self-government bodies - total of 878
newly amalgamated communities
▷ Anti-corruption: full anti-corruption
infrastructure in place
Taxation: decrease in number of taxes and
reduction in tax rates
Debt management: MTDS, return to markets,
significant involvement of international investors
and effective investor relations
Medium-Term Budget Planning introduced
▸ Public expenditures and procurement:
electronic procurement system fully effective
▸ Foreign trade: DCFTA in full force, FTA with
Israel signed in early 2019, FTA with Turkey
under negotiations
▸ Competitiveness and Deregulation: a great
leap forward in international rankings
▸ Investment climate: introduction of effective
mechanisms for dealing with bankruptcy
LTM1 update
High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC)
commenced its operations (Sep 2019)
⚫ New Supervisory Boards in state-
owned banks commenced their work
(June 2019)
• 38 judges were approved to the
HACC and its Appeal Chamber (April
2019)
⚫ Link between Clearstream and NBU
depository launched (May 2019)
• Resolution on State Fiscal Service
and State Customs Service reform
with appointment of respective heads
in May and July 2019
⚫ Fiscal stability: timely adoption of
2019 State budget and in line with IMF
requirements (November 2018)
• SME Development Office launched
(July 2019)
Regulations on improvement of Doing
Business ranking adopted by the
CMU (March 2019)
Bankruptcy Code to protect creditors'
rights and streamline bankruptcy
procedures (October 2018)
Selected results
91% increase in revenues
of local budgets in 2018 vs
2015
50 directorates with 1,305
new reform staff positions
in civil service
751 criminal proceedings by
NABU with 212 cases filed
to the courts
14-fold increase in non-
residents' domestic
government bond portfolio
to US$ 3.4bn since the
beginning of 2019
61% of GDP-state and
state-guaranteed debt in
2018 (vs 81% in 2016)
11 number of taxes (vs 22)
Ease of Doing Business
ranking improvement to
71st in 2018, 41 places up
from 2014
UAH 1.6bn
Privatization proceeds
transferred to state
budget in 2018
Sources CMU, Ministry of Finance, NBU, NABU
Notes
1 LTM last twelve months
September 2019
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