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Ukraine’s draft national budget for 2018 provides for growth of GDP by 3 percent, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting on Sept. 15.

He said that GDP growth could exceed the government’s expectations.

The document also provides for slow of inflation to 7 percent from 11 percent expected at the end of 2017 and the reduction of the deficit of the national budget to 2.4 percent of GDP from 2.7 percent of GDP in 2017, Groysman said.