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Economy ministry predicts economic growth exceeding 3 percent in 2018

Published Jan. 15, 2019 at 11:52 am

Ukraine First Vice Prime Minister and Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv (L) gives a joint press after an EU-Ukraine Association Council at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 19, 2016.

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The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade predicts that GDP growth in 2018 will exceed 3 percent, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said.

“GDP has been growing for 11 quarters in a row, the forecast for GDP growth in 2018 is more than 3 percent. Inflation is less than 3 percent, which is the lowest figure for the last five years,” he said at a conciliation meeting in parliament on January 15.