The national Bank of Ukraine predicts that in 2015 the level of inflation at 17%, said the head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva.
"We forecast inflation at 17% this year," said I, speaking in the Ukrainian Parliament on the last working day of the week.
The state budget of Ukraine for 2015, adopted by the end of 2014 by the Parliament, provides that inflation in 2015 will be at level 13, 1%. However, the Ukrainian authorities intend to revise the budget not later than fifteen February - as it was stated by the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, " depending on the results of negotiations with international financial organizations ". Head Petro Poroshenko has signed the main financial document of the country on December 31.
Now Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. According to the head of the national Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva, last year the country's GDP decreased by 7, 5%, inflation was 21%, the hryvnia depreciated by half.
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