Roundtable on "Enterprise Development and Investment Climate in Ukraine", Kiev, Ukraine, 13 June 2006

The objective of this roundtable was to present main findings of the joint EC-OECD project, carried out in 2004-2006, on improving the conditions for enterprise development and the investment climate for domestic and international investors in Ukraine  and discuss related policy recommendations with Ukrainian representatives. The meeting was co-hosted by the UNDP (see the agenda in English and in Ukrainian).

More than 60 participants took part in discussions, including the representatives of the (new elected) Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, government officials from the central and regional governments, governmental agencies as well as representatives of the business community and international experts (see the list of participants in English or in Ukrainian).  

The meeting was divided in the three sessions, corresponding to the main components of the EC - OECD project, namely:

• Legal framework for business operations
  download the summary of recommendations (also available in Ukrainian) and the presentation of  Marek Dabrowski, Chairman of the Council, Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE)

• Financial markets and their role in creating favourable investment climate
  download the summary of recommendations and the presentations of:
  Ewa Sadowska-Cieslak, Adviser, Central Bank of Poland 
  Balazs Zsamboki, Principal economist, Central Bank of Hungary

• Investment and regional development
  download the summary of recommendations (also available in Ukrainian), 
  the report on "Foreign Direct Investment Policy in the Lviv Region of Ukraine" (available in Ukrainian) and the presentation of Jonathan Potter, Senior Economist, LEED Programme, OECD

Also available:

• Summary of main findings and recommendations in English and in Ukrainian
• Report of the meeting (English)
• Press release (English)

The Project was implemented by the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affaires -www.oecd.org/daf and the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Programme through its Trento Centre for Local Development.