New opportunities for regional development: attracting investments and increasing export potential (photo)
Yesterday, January 23, at the Club of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine held a seminar on "Economic development of the regions: strategy and instruments for attracting investments and increasing export potential", organized jointly by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Office attract and support investment and the Office for the promotion of exports with the aim of establishing cooperation with the regions. Among the participants: representatives of the structural subdivisions of regional state administration and Executive bodies of city councils, regional offices and agencies, representatives of Central authorities, international funds, and UkraineInvest and Export Promotion Office. Vinnytsia regional state administration, represented by Deputy Director of Department of international cooperation and regional development – head of Department of regional development and investment Inessa Ratushniak. In addition, participation the seminar was attended by the Deputy of the Vinnytsia city mayor Vladislav Skalsky, Director of the Department of economy and investments of Vinnytsia city Council Vitaly Pogosyan and V.. Director of the Agency for regional development Vinnytsia region Valery Nikityuk. The seminar was aimed at discussion of investment strategies and investment projects, export potential, establishment of effective dialogue with representatives of the regions, analysis of the activities in the regions and identify priority areas of cooperation for 2017. The programme of the event was planned a separate panel discussion, where the participants could exchange practical advice and tools to attract investment and support investors, as well as experience of working with exporters. Among the honored guests – the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv, Deputy Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine – sales representative of Ukraine Nataliya Mykolska and the first Deputy Minister of Finance Oksana Markarova. In his speech, Volodymyr Groysman underlined that creation of comfortable conditions for doing business in the regions is key to economic growth: "Our task is to effectively solve the problems and to prevent their occurrence. Fiscal decentralization is also an investment in the development of the local economy. local budgets have increased several times. Thus, only the results of last year local budgets increased by more than 45 billion UAH. Encourage local authorities and business to be effective, shaping a new relationship, which will be based on openness and honesty." Stepan Kubiv told about new possibilities for development of regions and stressed that the positive rating and investor confidence is growing as a result of system reform undertaken by the Government: "Continuing the reforms should create an attractive investment climate to attract foreign and domestic investments, development of own production, in particular industrial, revitalization of the existing business. In this case we are changing the model of economic development, where the main growth factors for Ukraine will be export and investment demand. And it is here that the important active role of regional development which is responsible for the General economic well-being of Ukraine". Nataliya Mykolska, in turn, said: "We understand that the export actually takes place at the regional level, and, before all, the export of services. But if you look at the last invest-projects, they were aimed at export to the EU or to service export projects: logistics, infrastructure. This gives regions a competitive advantage and it is important that the business knew about the preferential policies for their regions." First Deputy Minister of Finance Oksana Markarova called for the creation of good working conditions, to provide high quality infrastructure to offer a favourable business environment, because it depends on where the investor will come in the next region, or neighboring country. In addition, the participants in practice were able to see how to prepare investment teasers, how they work investment portals how to develop investment passport of the region and what is needed as an effective means of communication with the investor. The workshop was the presentation of tried and tested steps for cooperation of the offices of the investment support and export promotion. This was reported in the Vinnytsia regional state administration.Ïåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
