{"id":37459,"date":"2025-10-06T16:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=37459"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:06:56","slug":"ukraine-misses-key-benchmarks-risks-funding-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/ukraine-misses-key-benchmarks-risks-funding-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Misses Key Benchmarks, Risks Funding Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current IMF program has \u00abvery easy benchmarks\u00bb, yet some remain unmet, said Maria Repko, the deputy executive director at the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), during the RRR4U presentation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ukraine is still likely to start a new program with the IMF, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ukraine is discussing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/60720\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new IMF program<\/a>\u00a0as an option to help address the country\u2019s financing needs.<\/p>\n<p>The size of a new IMF loan has not been formally discussed, but early estimates put it at about $8 billion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-22\/ukraine-accepts-imf-forecast-of-bigger-65-billion-financing-gap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0reported in September.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00abThe new IMF program will likely be frontloaded \u2013 most of the money will be disbursed at the beginning,\u00bb Repko said. \u00abTherefore, the Fund will have the opportunity to set stricter requirements at the start\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"743\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/61418\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyivpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"797\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">More news from CES experts can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?cat_ID=54\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current IMF program has \u00abvery easy benchmarks\u00bb, yet some remain unmet, said Maria Repko, the deputy executive director at the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), during the RRR4U presentation. However, Ukraine is still likely to start a new program with the IMF, she said. Now, Ukraine is discussing a\u00a0new IMF program\u00a0as an option to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200,187],"tags":[560,599],"experts":[172],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-37459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-list-en","category-experts-in-the-media-en","tag-financial-sector-en","tag-international-support-en","experts-maria-repko","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37459","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37464,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37459\/revisions\/37464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37459"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=37459"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=37459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}