{"id":26172,"date":"2023-12-08T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=26172"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:04:12","slug":"income-concern-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/income-concern-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Income is the second top concern for refugees considering return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The threat of a demographic crisis has been building in Ukraine for a while but Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion has pushed it to the breaking point. The knock-on effects of a demographic crisis will be tremendous, stunting any recovery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Center for Economic Strategy (CES) <\/span><a href=\"\/?p=25013\"><b>forecasts<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an annual GDP decline between 2.7%- 6.9% if the country loses between 1.3-3.3 million of its citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over half of Ukrainian children under 10 years old are now living abroad, researcher Dariia Mykhailyshyna from the CES told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/demographic-disaster-solving-ukraines-biggest-post-war-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Kyiv Independent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. With a fertility rate of 1.16, it may be difficult for Ukrainians to multiply their way out of this problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Income is the second top concern for refugees considering return. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukrainians living abroad listed the availability of well-paying jobs as their top economic consideration for where to live. They rank it above infrastructural reconstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is, most Ukrainian refugees fled from areas that are bearing the brunt of Russian attacks, like southern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and getting a good job in light of that is a tall order. Restoring businesses in Ukraine\u2019s industrial heartland will hasten their return, Mykhailyshyna said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/demographic-disaster-solving-ukraines-biggest-post-war-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Kyiv Independent<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of a demographic crisis has been building in Ukraine for a while but Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion has pushed it to the breaking point. The knock-on effects of a demographic crisis will be tremendous, stunting any recovery.\u00a0 The Center for Economic Strategy (CES) forecasts an annual GDP decline between 2.7%- 6.9% if the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"experts":[216],"news_type":[138,139],"class_list":["post-26172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","experts-dariia-mykhailyshyna-en","news_type-press-release","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26172","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26172"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=26172"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=26172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}