
Ukraine 2015: Recovering From the Perfect Storm
BY
Oleksandra Betliy, Vitaliy Kravchuk AND The Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting - Kyiv / January 19, 2016
2015 was a year of many wins and losses for Ukraine. In the first half of the year, Ukraine faced a near-perfect storm of escalating military conflict, falling commodity prices and political instability. As a result already low export revenues went even further down and foreign currency reserves dropped to 5 billion dollars.