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More efficient public spending would help Ukraine to complete the ‘vast’ array of structural and economic reforms needed to jumpstart growth, according to the World Bank.

In its latest economic update on the East European country, published today, the Bank noted that lower-than-forecast growth and inflation meant central budget revenues for the second half of 2012 had come in at Hr 33 billion lower than forecast.

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