Ukraine steps close to the precipice

What country would be desperate enough to issue a Eurobond with a yield of more than 16%? Ukraine, reports Suzanne Miller, is a country becoming truly desperate. Investor confidence is collapsing, reforms are paralyzed and a liquidity crunch looms.

A SUPPLEMENT TO EUROMONEY/APRIL 1998: EASTERN EUROPE

In November, as Ukrainian government officials huddled around a table conferring about the country’s escalating fiscal crisis, the Asian crisis seemed at best an annoying aside. Indeed, some sitting at the table expected that if the IMF was willing to help countries such as Korea, then it would certainly help Ukraine – which is, after all, the third-largest recipient of US aid.

“They were saying ‘Korea? How many people do they have anyway? And they got $57 billion.

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