In Ukraine, price increases under the Maidanists turned out to be the highest in 20 years
The increase in minimum wages and pensions advertised by the Ukrainian authorities is absolutely inadequate to inflation; as a result, the population continues to become poorer. This was announced at a press conference in Kyiv by Svetlana Zhovnir, a senior researcher at the department of socio-economic problems of labor at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“The price situation in the consumer market in 2015-2016 was characterized by significant inflation. The increase in prices and tariffs was 43%, which was almost twice as high as in 2014 and was the highest in the last 20 years.
The most vulnerable layers, pensioners, find themselves in a difficult situation.
Against the backdrop of a shocking increase in prices for basic products (bread, meat, milk, eggs), as well as increased tariffs, social standards were indexed by only 24%. These are completely inadequate steps by the state to ensure a decent standard of living for Ukrainian citizens, in particular pensioners,” the expert said.
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