The share of home purchases in Ukraine financed by mortgages fell to about 7 percent last year from 30 percent in 2007, at the end of the country’s four-year property boom, according to Dragon Capital, a Kiev-based investment bank. In neighboring Poland, it’s about 70 percent.“The mortgage market’s had a massive decline,” said Volodymyr Tymochko, the managing director in charge of the company’s real-estate division. “Everything just stopped.”

Dragon Capital: We hope that the Ukrainian leadership’s interest in the investment climate in general and in the Ukrainian stock market in particular will signifi cantly improve the situation with capital infl ows into the country. The new team in the Government is targeting quick wins that should improve business environment.

Citing government estimates, Kyiv-based investment bank Dragon Capital said annual production from the Skifska and Foroska fields may “peak at 3-4 billion cubic meters and 2-3 billion cubic meters, respectively. With water depths in these areas reaching 1,500 meters, we think commercial development of these fields can realistically start in 7 to 8 years.”

"Placement of stocks with redemption on May 29, 2013, May 21, 2014 and May 27, 2015 appeared to be effective," Serhiy Fursa, specialist of the Dragon Capital department for the sale of debt stocks said

Ukraine’s gross external debt continued to increase in 2011, rising by 7.6 percent compared to 2010, or $8.g billion, bringing the cumulative total to $126 billion, Kyiv’s Dragon Capital wrote in a March 21 note to investors.

Ukrainian beer consumption remained almost flat in 2011 at an estimated 28.2 million hectoliters, domestic output declined 2 percent year-on-year, while imports grew 46 percent over same period, said Dragon Capital’s Tatjana Telezko.

The primary performance indicators of the government’s economic policy have been the outside perspectives of Ukraine’s investment climate.Leszek Balcerowicz, famous for implementing the Polish economic transformation program, recently spoke at an annual investment conference organized by Dragon Capital, mentioning that poor policy and an extreme concentration of power leads to economic collapse faster than if the market is left to its own devices.