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6 Aug 2021 Kyiv, UA

National strategy to increase foreign direct investment in Ukraine is available now

KYIV, 6 AUGUST 2021. A full version of the Strategy was published on the website of the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine and Ukraine’s Investment Promotion Office – UkraineInvest.

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The Strategy provides recommendations for the development of promising industries to attract investments and ways to increase the foreign direct investment inflows into Ukraine. The document was primarily created for the international investment community and Ukrainian institutions directly engaged in investment attraction and promotion.

Per request of the Government of Ukraine, the Strategy was developed with support from the USAID Competitive Economy Program (CEP) by EY in Ukraine, in consultations with the Office of the National Investment Council, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, and UkraineInvest.

The Strategy is built around cross-sectoral (privatization, export promotion, education, digital transformation, and others) and sectoral incentives to increase foreign direct investments. The document contains specific recommendations on increasing the country’s attractiveness to potential foreign investors, both for relocating production facilities and starting new activities in Ukraine.

The full version of the Strategy is available at The Office of the National Investment Council’s website and at UkraineInvest’s website.

The Strategy presentation took place on July 15, 2021, at the event “Increasing FDI in Ukraine – Strategic Dialogue,” which took place at the Diplomatic Academy, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Key speakers included Oleksiy Liubchenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Alan Purcell, Deputy Chief of Mission at US Embassy in Ukraine, as well as other representatives of the public and private sectors.

The Strategy’s presentation recording is available here.

The summary version of the Strategy is available here.

The USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine (USAID CEP) supports business startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to become more competitive in domestic and international markets, fosters a simplified and more transparent business enabling environment, as well as enables Ukrainian companies to benefit from free trade.

The Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine is an advisory body to the President of Ukraine, providing a platform and facilitating dialogue between local businesses, international investors, and official bodies in Ukraine.

UkraineInvest is the Ukrainian government investment promotion office created in 2016 to attract foreign direct investment and assist existing investors in expanding their businesses in Ukraine. As a result, since its inception, UkraineInvest has helped unlock over $4 billion in investments from existing and new investors.

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