{"id":20457,"date":"2022-07-12T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2022-07-12T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:10:10","slug":"foreign-aid-has-covered-only-half-of-ukraines-budgetary-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/foreign-aid-has-covered-only-half-of-ukraines-budgetary-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign aid has covered only half of Ukraine\u2019s budgetary needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the $22 billion needed to cover the budget deficit and the repayment of debts from March to June, Ukraine has only received only $10.2 billion in foreign loans and grants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is reported by the Centre for Economic Strategy states this based on data from the Ministry of Finance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current aid flow dynamic allows us to count on at least partial coverage of the deficit with the help of international aid during the second half of 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, with the funds received at the beginning of July, the total budget inflows from February 24<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to July 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exceed $11 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, international partners have pledged $32 billion in loans and grants to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that this sum is only the money which goes directly into the Ukrainian budget \u2013 excluding funds for humanitarian help and military needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest foreign donors are the European Union and the United States. Each has pledged more than $10 billion in funding for Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These funds will not come in as a lump sum, but in instalments over several months, covering part of the country\u2019s needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We remind the reader that, in the first months of the full-scale war, foreign aid arrived with a delay. The government was forced to raise funds through domestic government loan bonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest purchaser of bonds was the National Bank ($7.6 billion since February 24<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">de facto<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> financed the deficit by printing the hryvnia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00abSuch financing is justified, considering that most of the expenses go to military needs. However, in time, the financing of the budget to the expense of emission will accelerate devaluation and inflation. An increase in foreign aid pledges, and, more importantly, regular payments, would decrease this burden\u201d according to Maksym Samoylyuk, economist at the CES.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the $22 billion needed to cover the budget deficit and the repayment of debts from March to June, Ukraine has only received only $10.2 billion in foreign loans and grants. This is reported by the Centre for Economic Strategy states this based on data from the Ministry of Finance. The current aid flow dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200,143],"tags":[],"experts":[462],"news_type":[138],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-list-en","category-home-news-en","experts-maksym-samoiliuk-en","news_type-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}