1st Deputy head of the IMF David Lipton will visit Ukraine next week
1st Deputy head of the international monetary Fund, a key lender Ukraine, David Lipton will come to Ukraine next week for meetings with the authorities and assessment of the economic situation in the country, said during a briefing in the capital of the United States Deputy head of foreign relations Department of the IMF William Murray.
" David Lipton wants to visit Ukraine. Perhaps next week - as long as we don't have the exact date of his arrival. I don't want to give preliminary estimates and projections of the results of his visit, but he will also hold a meeting with the authorities, and they will discuss the economic situation in the country,"
Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. The government predicts a decrease of the country's GDP by 5% in 2014, in November the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk did not exclude the falling rate of 7%. A similar level of decline is predicted and the national Bank of Ukraine. The European Bank for restoration and development assumes that GDP will decline by 7%, Fitch - 5%. The authorities have a hope to save the economy through external borrowing.
As told before, the magazine of the financial times, the IMF has calculated that Ukraine needs additional fifteen billion dollars for one week to prevent financial collapse. The amount should complement blessed by the Fund before 17 billion dollars to stabilize the budget in terms of political and economic decline. the 1st tranche of the IMF loan at 3, $ 2 billion Kyiv received in may, and the second tranche in the amount of about 1, 4 billion in the early autumn.
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