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Modernization of the District Heating Systems in Ukraine: Heat Metering and Consumption-Based Billing - (March 2012) The study outlines a multi-step process for Ukraine to consider. In the short term, the necessary step in improving efficiency of heat consumption is the introduction of heat metering with temperature controls and consumption-based billing. Building-level heat meters should be installed in all Ukrainian buildings that use district heat together with temperature controls at individual heat substations. Consumption-based billing should become obligatory.Read More |
Informal employment in Ukraine - (April 2011) Informal employment in Ukraine is significant. In 2010, 4.6 million people in Ukraine worked in the informal sector, equivalent to 22.9 percent of the total employment. Reducing informality is important for Ukraine’s development in terms of social cohesion, protection of workers, labor and product market efficiency, increased productivity, rule of law, and governance. The four technical notes provide an overview of the scope and main characteristics of informal employment in Ukraine and present international experience in addressing this issue. They also cover international experience of reforms with regard to the labor code and labor inspection services which are an integral part of a comprehensive policy to reduce informality. Read More |
What Underlies Ukraine’s Mortality Crisis? - (December 2010)
Pre-mature mortality risk among the Ukrainian population is high and nearly half of the adult Ukrainian population, many young, suffers from one or more chronic disease, says new World Bank study, presented in Kyiv on December 14, 2010. Read More |
Ukraine: Trade and Transit Facilitation Study - (May 2010)
The report, prepared with financial assistance of Dutch grant assisting Ukraine to improve its international competitiveness and public finance management, provides a basic diagnostic of trade and transport logistics and facilitation issues in the country. It looks at trade and transport facilitation from the point of view of exporters and importers and makes recommendations how Ukraine can fully exploit its geographic location to become a transit hub in the region. Read More |
Improving Targeting Accuracy of Social Assistance Programs in Ukraine - (April 2010)
The objective of this paper is to suggest ways to improve the targeting accuracy of social assistance programs in Ukraine.Read More |
Confronting "Death on Wheels" Making Roads Safe in Europe and Central Asia - ( January 2010)
This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in addressing road safety in the Europe and Central Asia Region. It presents information on the size, characteristics, and causes of the problem; presents evidence on the effectiveness of measures that countries world-wide have adopted to improve road safety; briefly describes current international road safety policy; and discusses a range of strategies and actions that could be undertaken. Read More |
Turmoil at Twenty - ( November 2009)
The countries in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, among all emerging and developing economy regions, are forecast to experience the deepest contraction as a result of the global economic recession of 2008–09. This is partly due to the region’s deep integration into the global economy across many dimensions—trade, financial, and labor flows. Read More |
Running a Business in Ukraine - (2009)
New data from Enterprise Surveys indicate that firms in Ukraine are among the largest in the Eastern European and Central Asian (ECA) region in terms of both permanent and temporary workforces. Read More |
Ukraine Labor Demand Study - ( July 2009)
This labor demand study is one of the outputs of the World Bank’s collaboration with the European Commission (EC) and the European Training Foundation (ETF). The goal was to issue joint policy recommendations for the modernization of the education system and to boost the development of human capital in the Ukraine. The study reflects coordinated research in the areas of skills supply and labor market demand. In particular, we want to acknowledge the support and contributions of Claudia Fisher, Vira Rybak and Timo Kuusela of EC and ETF, respectively. Read More |
An Avoidable Tragedy: Combating Ukraine’s Health Crisis – Lessons from Europe - ( June 2009)
The study provides a diagnosis of demographic and health challenges in Ukraine and relates these challenges to experience and evidence from other European countries.Ukraine has the highest depopulation rate in Europe, the Report concludes. The probability of reaching old age in Ukraine is lower compared to Central European countries. This is especially true for Ukrainian males, with adult male deaths being at levels comparable to countries with less than one-fifth the GNP per capita of Ukraine. Read More |
Challenges and Opportunities of EU-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement for the Development of Securities Markets and Non-Bank Financial Sector in Ukraine - (September 2008)
This Report examines the challenges and opportunities presented by the future integration of the Ukrainian securities market and NBFIs in the EU single market in financial services, in the framework of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) currently being negotiated between the Ukrainian Government and the European Commission. The FTA is part of the proposed Agreement of Association that is set to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.. Read More |
Technical Regulations in Ukraine: Ensuring Economic Development and Consumer Protection - (June 2008)
Ukraine can boast on the upside a vast number of well qualified specialists in MSTQ institutions. Its technical infrastructure is better than some of the neighboring countries, but lack of rationalizations (far too many laboratories in too many overlapping institutions) means that it is practically impossible to upgrade at the present stage. IFC released a report based on survey of Ukrainian businesses conducted in 2007 and on extensive analysis of legislation and practice in Ukraine and other countries. Read More |
Improving Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Public Health and Education Expenditure Policy: Selected Issues - (February 2008)
The Programmatic Public Finance Review (PFR) (in two phases) has the objective of addressing key issues in public finance that face Ukraine today and recommending options for reform within a consistent, and pro-growth, macro-fiscal framework. The PFR covers the following selected areas and issues: (i) the identification of options for broadening the tax base and improving compliance to allow gradually reducing the tax burden; (ii) the identification of options for achieving expenditure savings in selected areas of the budget; (iii) the estimation of the likely fiscal impact of key reforms to the pension system; (iv) the identification of weaknesses in the process of capital budgeting and the provision of options for its strengthening; (v) the identification of weaknesses (and incomplete reforms) in the intergovernmental fiscal framework and of options for its improvement; (vi) the identification of options for achieving higher levels of efficiency in public spending on health and education; and (vii) the evaluation of the process of local capital budgeting. The first four objectives were covered in PFR Phase I, and the latter three are covered in this report (PFR Phase II). Read More |
Ukraine: Poverty Update - (July 2007)
Ukraine recorded one of the sharpest declines in poverty of any transition economy in recent years. The poverty rate, measured against an absolute poverty line, fell from a high of 32 percent in 2001 to 14 percent in 2004, and then again to 8 percent in 2005. The main cause was the rapid increase in labor productivity in recent years, driven by increased capital utilization following the initial output contraction of the early 1990s, and more recently, increased domestic and foreign investment. Read More |
Ukraine Is Aging – Reforms Are Needed To Deal With The Consequences - (June 2007)
The population of Ukraine is aging rapidly and its policies and institutions are ill-equipped to deal with the economic and social consequences of this development. This is the conclusion of the new World Bank report From Red to Gray: The “Third Transition” of Aging Populations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union presented in Kyiv. Read More |
Ukraine Aids Epidemic Could Lead to Slower Growth, Fewer Workers, Warns World Bank - (June 2007)
If Ukraine’s AIDS epidemic is not curtailed quickly, by 2014, the total number of HIV-positive people could reach up to 820,400 under the pessimistic scenario. Read More |
Key strategies for further development of the health care in Ukraine - (Apr. 2007)
This study aims to assist in the process of planning and coordination of a state policy, to provide specific guidelines to the Government of Ukraine for a systematic development of the healthcare sector over the next 10 years, as well as to help experts plan their further actions.The study was prepared by national Ukrainian experts with additional expert support from the World Bank and European Commission. Read More |
Socioeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine - (July. 2006)
Ukraine's HIV/AIDS epidemic is among the fastest growing in Europe, and the Government must act quickly to prevent the potential dire economic and humanitarian consequences. Read More |
The Development of Non-bank Financial Institutions in Ukraine - (July. 2006)
Policy Reform Strategy and Action Plan. Read More |
Ukraine: addressing challenges in provision of heat, water and sanitation - (March. 2006)
The report finds that there are good chances for a rationalization and revival of the sector in the presence of the right mix of leadership from the top, appropriate financial engineering, and willpower at the local level. Read More |
Ukraine: Forestry Sector Note. Status and opportunities for development. - (March. 2006)
The objective of the Note is to draw attention to a tentative agenda of key issues, and to inform discussion among forestry sector stakeholders regarding the needs, opportunities and options available to maintain and manage Ukraine’s forests for the benefit of all. Read More |
The Impact of Higher Natural Gas and Oil Prices - (Dec. 2005)
Ukraine should be able to reduce its vulnerability to energy price increases. But this would require urgent, overdue reforms to its energy sector. Read More |
Strengthening the VAT in Ukraine - (Dec. 2005)
The paper evaluates the past and current performance of the VAT in Ukraine and urges substantial strengthening of tax policy and particularly of tax administration. Read More |
Ukraine Poverty Assessment: Poverty and Inequality in a Growing Economy - (Dec. 2005)
Despite faster poverty reduction in Ukraine than in some neighboring countries, there is an increasing poverty gap between rural and urban households, reflecting fast but unbalanced economic growth. Full-Text/Audio/Video |
Doing Business in Ukraine - (2005)
Selected data provide a snapshot of the business climate in Ukraine by identifying specific regulations and policies that encourage or discourage investment, productivity, and growth. Read More |
The Debate on the Elimination of Free Enterprise Zones in Ukraine - (Dec. 2005)
Starting in 1999, Ukrainian authorities turned to the creation of free enterprise zones to attract technology and foreign investment. But the zones are not consistent with good practice and have come at the expense of improveming the business climate throughout the country. Read More |
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