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28/08/2007 - The OECD’s first economic assessment of Ukraine, to be published on Tuesday 4 September 2007, looks at the reforms needed to sustain strong, innovation-led growth. A central theme is improving the climate for business through more effective and transparent regulation.   

The survey will be available to journalists in English and Ukrainian on the OECD's password-protected website at 10.00 Paris time (08.00 GMT, 11.00 a.m. in Kiev) for immediate release. 

A news conference will take place at 10.30 a.m. (local time) the same day at the Club of the Cabinet of Ministries in Kiev. It will be presented by Val Koromzay, Director of Country Studies,  OECD and by Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukraine’s Minister of Economy. To register for the conference,  journalists are invited to contact Stadnyk Roksolana, Head of Cooperation with the Media, Economy Ministry, Kiev (tel. + 380 44 253 80 30, e-mail. press@me.gov.ua).

A Policy Brief with the main conclusions of the survey will be freely accessible in pdf format (in English, French, Ukrainian and German) on the OECD’s web site at www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/ukraine. You are invited to include this internet link in reports on the survey.

Among the questions investigated by the survey are:

• What has been driving growth?
• What are the major challenges for fiscal and monetary policies?
• Why is an improved business environment so important for sustaining growth over the long term?
• What is constraining processes of creative destruction in Ukraine?
• Why are enhanced competition and further privatisation such priorities for Ukraine?

Journalists will be allowed advance access to the electronic version of the publication, by e-mail and under embargo, four hours ahead of release time. For journalists in Asia/Pacific time zones such advance access is allowed 12 hours ahead of release time.

The study will be sent by e-mail on request only. In asking to receive the survey under embargo, journalists undertake to respect the OECD’s embargo procedures. Requests to receive the survey by e-mail under embargo or to obtain a password to access the website should be sent by e-mail to Nicole Le Vourch in the OECD’s Media Relations Division.