Economy review in August 2023. How Ukraine Can Harvest and Export the Crop This Year

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 August review:

• Macroeconomic trends: GDP growth and improvement of business activity;
  
• Industry overview: preparation of the energy industry for winter, 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.

We also discussed with government officials and experts the special topic of the month — how Ukraine acn harvest and export the crop this year.

Participants of the discussion:

• Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine;
• Alex Lissitsa, CEO of Industrial Milk Company SA;
• Nataliia Shpyhotska, Senior Analyst at Dragon Capital, President of CFA Society Ukraine.