Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine’s prime minister, promised that his citizens will finally reap the benefits of economic reforms this year in an interview with the Financial Times published Wednesday.
“The people will feel it, or God forbid we will fall back into stagnation,†Groysman said.
For the past three years, Ukraine’s pro-Europe government has implemented austerity measures such as raising gas prices in a bid to get its economy back on track. While real economic output decreased by 17 percent for the first two years, it grew by 2.3 percent in 2016, according to the FT.
Groysman said the International Monetary Fund’s decision to …read more
Source: European Voice
