This year Investment Attractiveness Index of Ukraine failed down to its all-time low, having reduced a number of those, who wish to invest in the country, to a minimum. This was also marked during the international investment forum in London.

The British capital hosted an economic forum where foreigners came to know how the business climate changed in Ukraine

London hosted the conference, Inside Ukraine 2011: A success story in the making?, organized by The Economist and Ukrainian Foundation for Effective Government

Second forum ■ Foreigners learned about our stable banks, utility system and large-scale privatisation

Today when the global financial and economic climate is not stable it would be better for Ukraine to abandon the peg that ties the value of the Ukrainian hryvnya to the US dollar to be able to respond to external shocks

Portinvest, which consolidates all transport assets of the largest Ukrainian group, System Capital Management (SCM, Donetsk), is in the final stage of preparation for construction of a trans-shipment terminal with a capacity 18m tonnes per year at Yuzhny Sea Trade Port (Odesa Oblast), according to the CEO of the company, Aleksandr Smirnov.

Ukraine is going to join in the top 50 countries in the Logistics Performance Index before 2013. Strategy for transport system restructuring will help Ukraine to attain the goal.

During the conference “Inside Ukraine 2011: A success story in the making”, which took place in London, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Serhiy Tihipko, announced that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement can be ratified on 19 December.

Высокие налоги, коррупция и инфляция больнее всего бьют по конкурентоспособности страны

Businessmen will be brought up in “incubators’ and permits will be issued via Internet