The International Finance Corporation plans to launch a €50 million donor-funded program as a pilot for its proposed Viability Gap Facility meant to make certain Ukrainian infrastructure public-private partnerships more commercially viable, a senior IFC official said. The pilot is expected to cover two or three projects, with
Ukrainian companies are changing the skills they require for existing jobs as they adapt to worker shortages and wartime disruption, with digital capabilities becoming increasingly important, according to a new World Bank study. After the full-scale invasion, digital skills accounted for 13.09% of the skills employers sought in
War has lowered Ukraine’s economic output not only by destroying factories and removing labor, but also by disrupting how the remaining workers and productive assets are matched with the companies that can best use them, a new study finds. Basic growth accounting suggests that roughly half of Ukraine’s
Ukraine needs stronger capacity to prepare and implement projects to accelerate the deployment of reconstruction financing, said a senior European Investment Bank official. “Public sector capabilities still need to grow,” Matteo Rivellini, head of the EIB’s Ukraine Investment Team, told Ukraine Rebuild Newswire. “We have, let's say,
URN reporters attend meetings and events on Ukraine’s reconstruction every day, listening for information of particular interest to our clients — business development professionals and investors. Last week alone, our meeting transcripts totalled 95,000 words - that's the equivalent of George Orwell's 1984, with an extra
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