Discover new Ukraine: re-born, modernizing, reforming Yuri Donets Director, Ukrainian office St. Petersburg November 10th, 2017
Country Information Territory: about 600 000 sq.km. (1 st in size fully European country) Capital City Kyiv 2,9 MM (6.5% of total population) Top 5 cities Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Zaporizhya The conflict at the East of Ukraine (parts of Donetsk and Lugansk region) is limited to 2.5% of the territory of Ukraine The distance between the conflict zone and Kyiv is about 700 km 2 accounting ERP import legal tax
World Bank DB Ranking - 2018 Topics Ukraine Russia Poland Belarus Starting a Business 52 28 120 30 Getting Credit 29 29 29 90 Registering Property 64 12 38 5 Protecting Minority Interests 81 51 51 40 Paying Taxes 43 52 51 96 Trading Across Borders 119 100 1 30 Enforcing Contracts 82 18 55 24 Overall Country Ranking 76 35 27 38 Ukraine is improving steadily for 5 years in a row. This year s breakthrough in paying taxes : from 84 th to 43 rd place! The Ukrainian economy hit bottom in autumn 2015. GDP growth (2016 = 2.3%, 2017 = 2.5%, 2018 = 3.5%, 2019 > 4%) Inflation: 12% for 2017, circa 8% - for 2018, and 5% - in 2020 Ukraine leads at EMEA region investment attractiveness, as per Institutional Investor : 32% of investors consider it a priority accounting ERP import legal tax 3
Reforms List & Progress Below is the short list of the major reforms and rather subjective view on the progress in their implementation: Public Procurement Reform Financial Sector Reform Energy Sector Reform Judicial Reform Education Reform Pension Reform Decentralization Public Administration Reform Law Enforcement Reform State-Owned Enterprise Government Reform National Security and Defense Reform Digital Ukraine Deregulation Health Care Reform Anti-corruption Reform Agricultural/Land Reform accounting ERP import legal tax 4
Governmental Tenders: e-procurement ProZorro is a public e-procurement system that has replaced old paper-based state tenders. Public procurement has now gone online. All attempts to run a rigged tender become visible to public immediately Starting from 1 August 2016, ProZorro became mandatory for ALL government authorities ProZorro won the biggest international award in the field of procurement, the World Procurement Award 2016 The reform became a show-case as a unique example of public procurement digitization from EBRD and the Open Contracting Partnership. To top off the bill, ProZorro won the gold in the prestigious Open Government Award contest in 2016. accounting ERP import legal tax 5
Priority Sectors Manufacturing Setup (EU Association Agreement) IT Outsourcing / Development Agriculture Energy Infrastructure accounting ERP import legal tax 6
2 MAP OF FOREIGN AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS IN UKRAINE
8 reasons to consider Ukraine as the place of IT outsourcing Easy communication Easy & quick travel Compatible culture Cost savings Insignificant difference in time zones High expertise / independence Availability of human resource Good precedents (MICROSOFT, ORACLE, REUTERS, INTEL, DEUTSCHE BANK, and many other famous names) accounting ERP import legal tax 8
Priority Sectors: AGRICULTURE Over 70% (32 million hectares) is agricultural land Fertile black soil chornozem is 30% of world s reserves Good geography and highly skilled labor (25% of 43mm population in agriculture) The cereal crop can reach as high as 90-100 million tons, with half of it for exports By mid-2020s, could be No. 3 in food production worldwide, after the U.S. and Brazil accounting ERP import legal tax 9
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