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represented on the national labour market: the biggest categories of
them were office workers (19%) and workers in the service and trade
sector (14.3%).

Ukraine must make a triple economic jump from a transitional economy
to a developing one. In particular, the challenge is to increase the GDP
per capita from a pre-war level of $4,000 up to $12,000, announced
First Deputy Minister of Economy Denis Kudin. According to Kudin, this
leap can be made only through Ukraine's path to the European Union,
as well as active entrepreneurship and a change in the Ukrainian
mindset. As reported earlier, the government has identified the first
projects to be financed at the expense of the European Investment
Bank (EIB) as part of the Ukraine Recovery Programme. In the first
stage, 83 projects with a total cost of UAH4.7bn have been selected,
which will be implemented in 10 regions of Ukraine.
and to full sc

• External sector and trade balance

In 2022 Ukraine's exports of goods declined by 43% and imports
by 28%. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, the surplus from

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