KYIV, March 14 – Ukrainian business has improved its expectations for the next 3-4 months, in particular, the share of enterprises that plan to grow increased from 39% in January to 49.1% in February, these are the results of the tenth monthly survey of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER), published on Monday.

"The IER survey suggests that uncertainty remains high for business, although short-term expectations of companies are quite positive. It should be noted that expectations of an increase in production do not necessarily imply reaching the level of February 2022," Oleksandra Betliy, a leading researcher at the IER, said in an author's column on the website of Interfax-Ukraine.

According to IER estimates, the decline in real GDP in February slowed down to 26.7% from 33.8% in January.