IMF Staff Country Reports

Ukraine: Selected Issues

July 9, 2008

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the Ukrainian business cycle. It focuses on the price of steel—Ukraine’s major export—and its relation to the economic performance. It establishes a forecasting model for steel prices, which points to downside risks to steel prices. It discusses the effects of steel price fluctuations on economic activity and how policies might then mitigate them. The paper also develops core inflation indicators for Ukraine to better distinguish underlying from temporary influences on inflation.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Inflation, Metal prices, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Budget planning and preparation, Core inflation indicator, CR, Expenditure target, Global, Government, Inflation, ISCR, Metal prices, Output gap, Steel price, Support government intention, Ukraine

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    61

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2008/228

  • Stock No:

    1UKREA2008002

  • ISBN:

    9781451839135

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685