Ukraine’s new president wants to open the land market, a step long pushed by economists and international financial institutions to stimulate investment in an agricultural sector with much untapped potential. Not everyone is happy, though. […]
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ordered his new government to submit a draft law for land market reform by the start of October and to prepare large-scale privatisations of state companies starting in April next year. […]
The World Bank and the Finance Ministry of Ukraine signed an agreement to raise a loan in the amount of USD 200 million to Program-for-Results (PforR) on Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture. [farmlandgrab.org]
On April 1st, appropriately enough, a comedian who plays the president in a popular TV show, “Servant of the People”, emerged as the likeliest next leader of Ukraine, coming well ahead of the incumbent, Petro […]