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# 43 (722) 15 — 21 November 2008

 
Vadym Lyashko

Vadym LYASHKO: “The word ‘competitiveness’ became just a fetish to us”

Author: Andriy OLEKSEYEV

The cloud of crisis that looms over the country has a silver lining: the authorities are not ignoring the people anymore and have to heed industrial managers, bankers, and experts....

NBU Officials Growing Fond of Non-Market Management Methods

Author: Yuriy SKOLOTIANY

#42 (721) 8 November 2008

Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, little heed was paid to the news released on 5 November by the Association of Ukrainian banks (AUB) about a meeting the AUB Board members and CEOs of the AUB member banks had a day before with NBU Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh and his First Deputy Anatoliy Shapovalov...

Are we not in a hurry? The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine didn’t approve an economic stabilization plan in one week

Author: Yuriy SKOLOTIANY

#39 (718) 18 October 2008

Just two issues were discussed at the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on October 13, where representatives of all branches of the state power were present. The first question regarded urgent measures to facilitate citizens' rights during the early elections for parliamentarians to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine...

Anatoliy SHAPOVALOV: “The issue is not about the devaluation of the hryvnia. It is a correction of the exchange rate forced by the current circumstances”

Author: Yuriy SKOLOTIANY

#38 (717) 11 October 2008

If at the end of summer, it was possible to buy one dollar for 4.7 hryvnia, then on October 8th, the exchange rate surged up to 6.0 hryvnia for one dollar in some exchanges. This shows that hryvnia has lost more than 20% of its value over the past incomplete one and a half months...

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