The earnings of the citizens of Ukraine do not have the ability to keep pace with rising living costs - the prices of food, medicine, clothes, shoes, public service and public transport is steadily want up, writes. According to the civil service statistics, inflation in February to 34, 5% higher than in the same month of 2014.
The Ukrainian government wants from 1 January 2016 to cut pensions by 15% costs 80 billion UAH (approximately 216 billion) have become a burden for the Ukrainian Treasury. In General, the austerity measures will affect 20 million people - estimated at 40% of the population dependent On budgetary payments. The massive price increases, the most in the sphere of communal services, will suffer most will be the teachers, doctors, pensioners, says the journal.
"the story is about 40% - and the most important thing is the urban population. Citizens in cities cannot afford to grow vegetables. Now they will have to solve another problem: how to reduce the cost of heating their homes, " Sputnik words, a senior analyst at the economic problems of the international centre for policy studies, Alexander Acorn.
Authorities suggest that the cost of domestic gas in the country will grow in 3, 3 times. After the utility tariffs will increase by 71, 8%.
Retailers recognize that they need each day to raise prices on food, informs the media. Moreover grow not only the price of imported products, but also on the necessities - milk, bread, flour and cereals. Typically, these products rose in price by 20-30%.
Non-food items (clothing, shoes, Lekarstva and medical supplies, household chemicals) are mostly imported from abroad. Due to the devaluation of the hryvnia they went up twice. For example, cough syrup cost 30 UAH, Now is 60-70 UAH, gives the example of Sputnik.
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