Economy review in September 2023. Ukrainian state budget 2024: US uncertainty and funds for recovery needs

Since March 2022, the Centre for Economic Strategy (CES), together with the German Economic Team (GET), has been preparing monthly reviews of Ukraine’s economy during a full-scale war. All notes can be found under the link.

You can also access the visualization of monthly highlights through our regularly updated Ukraine War Economy Tracker.

Read in the September review:

• Macroeconomic trends: GDP growth and improvement of business activity;
  
• Industry overview: record export of electricity, export of metallurgy and grain;
  
• Fiscal policy: state budget receipts and expenditures, international financial assistance, as well as the state of local budgets;
  
• Monetary and exchange rate policy: exchange rates, inflation and trends in the banking sector.

Also, we discussed a special topic — Ukrainian state budget-2024. Participants:

Participants of the discussion:

• Oleksandra Azarkhina, Deputy Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine;
• Oleksandra Betliy, Senior Expert at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting;
• Bailey Childers, Director of government relations in The German Marshall Fund of the United States;
• Volodymyr Tsabal, Secretary of the Committee on Budget of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.