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Chinese central bank to replace IMF in Ukraine
Published 21 November 2011 - Updated 23 November 2011
Ukraine is set to rely on Chinese funds after Kyiv surprisingly announced it was turning away from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help finance its struggling economy.
The Central Bank of China has offered a credit line to Ukraine, the Ukrainian daily Kommersant reported today (21 November).
The announcement comes after the IMF published on 18 November a report on the implementation of the stand-by agreement with Ukraine, deploring a lack of political will from Kyiv (see background).
The IMF said that the stand-by programme initiated for Ukraine in 2008 had brought short-term positive results, but not the broader improvement of the economic situation it had expected.
"Progress [in structural reforms] hasn't been as fast as we would like it to be," Max Alier, the IMF's resident representative in Ukraine said recently, quoted by the Kyiv Post.
Ukraine next year will face considerable challenges related to the worsening global economic situation, which will make GDP growth slow to 3.5% from this year's 5%, Alier said.
He also said the country needs to maintain its attractiveness to investors as it requires large external injections of capital.
China has already provided credits to Belarus, another former Soviet country.
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