{"id":25857,"date":"2023-11-10T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=25857"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:42:30","slug":"economy-review-in-october-the-revival-of-business-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/economy-review-in-october-the-revival-of-business-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy review in October 2023. The revival of business loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since March 2022, the Centre for Economic Strategy (CES), together with the German Economic Team (GET), has been preparing monthly reviews of Ukraine\u2019s economy during a full-scale war. All notes can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/category\/research-list-en\/economy-during-the-war-en\/\">under the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can also access the visualization of monthly highlights through our regularly updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/tracker-economy-during-the-war\/\">Ukraine War Economy Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following happened in the Ukrainian economy in October:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Macroeconomic trends:<\/strong> improvment of GDP growth, business expectations worsened.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry overview: <\/strong>energy sector is stable so far, f\u0430errous production further decreased, grain exports by sea increased.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiscal sector: <\/strong>Ukraine received USD 2.75 bn of foreign financing, tax revenues continue steady growth, defense spending more than doubled, local budgets surplus continues to be larger.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>Monetary and fx policy: <\/strong><\/strong>international reserves declined and hryvnia strengthened, NBU cuts key policy rate to 16%, inflation slows down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More details can be found in the presentation. Also, we added to the review a special topic \u2014 &#8220;The revival of business loans in Ukraine. Will this trend be sustained?&#8221;. Participants of the discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andriy Gapon<\/strong>, Director of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Natalia Gurina<\/strong>, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pervin Dadashova<\/strong>, Director of the Financial Stability Department of the National Bank of Ukraine;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Yevhen Zaihraiev<\/strong>, Member of the Management Board of Privatbank for Small and Medium Business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economy review in October. The revival of business loans in Ukraine. 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