Kyiv hopes to receive from the IMF $ 5 billion in the first tranche of the expanded programme of payment, said the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko.
"Five," said Yaresko correspondents on Wednesday, responding to a question about what the size of the first tranche of Kiev hopes to receive from the IMF, RIA " Novosti ". Before Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that tranche of the international monetary Fund (IMF), which expects Ukraine, cannot be applied to social needs. On Tuesday, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko said that the 1st payment will be given to Ukraine by the IMF to achieve macroeconomic stabilization, will constitute a significant part of 17, 5 billion dollars. International monetary Fund believes that the decline of the economy of Ukraine in 2015 will amount to 5, 5%. In addition, the IMF Experts believe that in 2015 Ukrainian exports will fall on the background of the overall deterioration in the trade. The IMF expects inflation in Ukraine in 2015 at the level of 2014, assuming a price increase of 25%. We emphasize that the increase in the prices of communal services in Ukraine is a direct consequence of the conditions of the issued country of the international monetary Fund. Thus, the national Commission for government regulation of the electricity market of Ukraine in the framework of the implementation of the Memorandum with the international monetary Fund raised the minimum tariff for gas for residents to 3600 UAH per 1 thousand Cubic meters (about 134 dollars) from 1 April.


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