Eastern Europe and South Caucasus: Competitiveness and Private Sector Development

This report examines the key policies that would increase competitiveness in the Eastern Europe and South Caucasus region through developing human capital, improving access to finance for SMEs and creating more and better investment opportunities.

Fall in shipbuilding set to continue for some time, says OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding

The economic downturn has hit shipbuilding hard. New orders have contracted by up to 90% and cancellations have increased, which is likely to result in significant excess shipbuilding capacity. This outlook is unlikely to improve for some time.

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.

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Legal Issues with Regard to Business Operations and Investment in Ukraine

Ukraine has made good progress across a broad front of legal and regulatory issues concerning the general business climate, but the country still needs to address major challenges. From the perspective of investors and legal analysts, a lack in consistency and coherence of legislation can affect investment decisions. Another issue is the institutional capacity of Ukrainian authorities and the judiciary to implement the legislation.

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OECD–Ukraine Forum for Investment: Legal Landscape for Doing Business in Ukraine

The primary purpose of this meeting was to better assess the current situation and needs of the legal landscape with regard to business, identify priorities in the field of investment and private sector development, both domestic and foreign, and to gather experiences from various stakeholders in order to develop a set of recommendations on how to further improve the business climate in the Ukraine.

Ukraine: A Miracle in waiting?

This article, by Mehmet Ögütçü and Jaroslav Kinach, was published in the October 2002 edition of the OECD Observer.

Foreign Direct Investment in South-Eastern Europe in the early 2000s

The aim of this paper is to provide a statistical update of an earlier analysis on FDI in South East European countries and includes Moldova among the countries covered. Various features of FDI in the region and in individual countries are presented in 29 tables. This study, prepared by Gábor Hunya of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, was commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of Economy and Labour.

Attracting investment to South East Europe: Common principles and best practices - Ministerial Declaration

Ministers representing the nations of South East Europe met in Vienna on 18 July 2002 under the auspices of the Stability Pact Investment Compact to sign this declaration on common principles and best practices designed to attract private investment in the region.

Ukraine - Investment Policy Review - OECD

These reviews of investment policy in the Ukraine provide a record of the reforms underway and the debate on the reform process in Ukraine - a country with strong economic potential but which has yet to be perceived as an attractive destination for foreign direct investment.

Ukraine and the World Economy: Risk Assessment and Policy Recommendations

This study, by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, deals with the economic relationship between Ukraine and the rest of the world.