Now in its third edition, Doing Business with Ukraine is the most authoritative guide available to investment and trading opportunities, and to the structural, legal and market changes underway in the country. With a GDP growth of just over 12% year-on-year reported in 2004, Ukraine, one of the largest countries in Europe, now boasts one of the strongest GDP growth rates among all transition economies and one of the best in the world. The guide examines the legal and regulatory framework, business practice and regulations, and surveys the potential of several key industries. In addition, the guide devotes a special section to investing in Ukraineâs regions.

Since its independence from the USSR in 1991, Ukraine has continued to make reforms to strengthen its economy. Following his election in 1994, President Kuchma has pushed forward economic reforms, maintained financial discipline, and tried to remove almost all remaining controls held over prices and foreign trade. Ukraine now offers great potential for international investment and has become an exciting business opportunity for companies wishing to take advantage of the country's wealth of natural resources and prospering technology industries, in addition to its highly qualified bank of human resources. "Doing Business with Ukraine" provides an authoritative appraisal of the new economic and investment climate, an update on market potential in the key business sectors, and unique 'best practice' advice on all aspects of investing in or trading with Ukraine.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Compiled and edited by experts in the field and featuring contributions from leading international bodies, each volume in this series provides the comprehensive and authoritative economic and business information and key data that makes every book an essential first-stop reference source for international companies, individual entrepreneurs and investors, SMEs, business advisors, marketing directors and export managers. The geographical coverage is wide and titles are regularly revised.