Yatseniuk expects slight growth of Ukraine's economy in Q4, 2015

17:06, 29.12.2015 1 min read

The Ukrainian government expects the resumption of economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2015 and the increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016 by 2%, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk has stated.

"I expect a slight increase in the fourth quarter [in 2015]," the prime minister said at the final press conference in Kyiv.

According to him, it will be possible to talk about more accurate figures of economic dynamics in the current year in January 2016.

Yatseniuk said that inflation in 2015 is expected to reach about 45%.

According to the State Statistics Service, Ukraine's GDP in the third quarter of 2015 decreased by 7.2% compared to the same period of 2014, while compared to the second quarter of 2015, taking into account seasonal factors, it rose by 0.5%.