## Ukraine: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, April 4, 2017_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 4, 2017
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475592498.002

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### Summary
- This Selected Issues paper analyzes the extent of corruption in Ukraine compared with other countries.
- The level of corruption in Ukraine is described as exceptionally high.
- High corruption could severely undermine economic growth prospects by hindering private investment.
- Reducing corruption is characterized as essential to speed economic convergence with the rest of Europe.
- Regional comparisons are used to help identify best practices in reducing corruption.
- The Ukrainian authorities have recently adopted key measures that follow some of these best practices.

### Major findings
- The level of corruption in Ukraine is exceptionally high.
- Corruption could severely undermine economic growth prospects by hindering private investment.
- Regional comparisons help identify best practices in reducing corruption.
- The Ukrainian authorities have recently adopted key measures that follow some of these best practices.

### Challenges and risks
- The country faces several challenges that may hamper effective anticorruption efforts, including the concentration of political and economic power in a small group of people.

### Policy implications and recommendations
- Reducing corruption is essential to speed economic convergence with the rest of Europe.
- Adoption and implementation of key measures aligned with regional best practices are important steps taken by the Ukrainian authorities.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subjects: Aging, Corruption, Crime, Expenditure, Inflation targeting, Labor, Monetary policy, Pension spending, Population and demographics, Retirement
- Keywords: Aging, Corruption, corruption effort, CR, Eastern Europe, Europe, ICRG corruption index, Inflation targeting, ISCR, law enforcement agency, NBU Council, pension, pension benefit, Pension spending, pension system, Retirement, Ukraine

*Source: Ukraine: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports 2017, Issue 084).*

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