Country Profile: Ukraine

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Country Profiles

CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html

Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/508461/Romania

Microsoft Encarta: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559516/Romania.html

Private Sector/ Business Environment

Doing Business:

http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=194

Enterprise Surveys 2008:  

http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=158&year=2009

Private Participation in Infrastructure:

http://ppi.worldbank.org/explore/ppi_exploreCountry.aspx?countryID=90

UNCTAD Country Fact Sheets on Foreign Direct Investment :

http://www.unctad.org/sections/dite_dir/docs/wir08_fs_ua_en.pdf

Economic Information

http://www.economist.com/countries/ukraine/

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Ukraine

http://www.ukraine.com/economy/

http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/ukraine/ukraine_economy.html

http://www.ier.kiev.ua/English/memu_eng.cgi

Government Sites

http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/index

http://www.president.gov.ua/en/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-u/ukraine.html

Major Funding Organisations

Renaissance Foundation: http://www.efc.be/webready/RENA001.html

Victor Pinchuk Foundation: http://pinchukfund.org/en

The Charitable Organisation Foundation of Elena Franchuk AntiAIDS:

http://antiaids.org/en/

IFP: http://www.efc.be/projects/ifp/fellows/2006/orysia_lutsevych.htm

Carpathian Foundation Ukraine: http://www.carpathianfoundation.org/

Ukrainian Women's Fund: http://www.uwf.kiev.ua/en_index.htm

Development Agency Country Pages and Useful Links

World Bank link

USAID

http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/countries/ro/index.html

IMF

http://www.imf.org/external/country/rou/index.htm

BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1102303.stm