Ukraine's government plans to reduce the number of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to about 100 from the current 3,000 under a recently adopted state property policy, the country's Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
"The goal of this optimization is to enhance the efficiency of SOEs, increase their contribution to the economy, and reduce the budgetary burden of maintaining them," Svyrydenko stated.
Tetra Tech, the global consulting and engineering firm, has laid off dozens of workers in Ukraine and faces tens of millions of dollars in costs locally due to the USAID cuts, including a payment freeze on work completed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company is one of
Some 60 privately owned Finnish companies have applied so far to the government's Finnpartnership program that helps them get ready to invest in Ukraine, said Antti Vänskä, Finland's special envoy to the reconstruction of Ukraine. And that number is set to grow. "The interest of
Ukraine's Ministry of Economy and the Ukrainian-Korean Business Council (UKBC) have signed a memorandum of cooperation to deepen institutional collaboration and boosting private sector engagement between the two countries.
Ukraine's foreign exchange regulations are changing "rapidly and dramatically" and are providing "quite many surprises" to foreign companies operating in the country, representatives from Schneider Group warned at a webinar this week. The warning came during a one-hour presentation on foreign exchange controls
