The Prime Minister forecasts 1.5% of GDP growth until the end of the year, Correspondent.net reports.
The GDP growth in Ukraine can make up 1.5% in 2016, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman forecasts.
“According to our forecasts, until the end of this year we will have 1.5% of GDP growth… the main task of our government is to retain this growth”, he said during the press-conference as per results of his visit to the USA.
In the first quarter of 2016 the Ukraine’s GDP reportedly increased by 0.1% versus the first quarter of 2015, while in the previous year this drop made up 17%.
On May 6, IMF stated that soon Ukraine will enter the period of record economic growth, which will be supported by decreasing economic misbalances and improvement of geopolitical situation.
The World Bank expects that the Ukraine’s GDP growth will remain at the rate of 1% in 2016.
And the Ministry of Economy forecasts GDP growth in 2017 at the rate of 3.5%, not 4%, as it was previously stated.
