The present study analyzes the nature of Ukrainian farm debt by investigating whether the debt servicing problem of … underlying problem behind the debt problem. Second, the study recounts the main reasons for apparent farm losses in Ukraine. This … analysis suggests that low profits are a result of public policies that reduce incentives for profit making, farm production of …

of a pool of profitable clients, the Ukrainian countryside is dominated by unprofitable farm enterprises which employ the … farm restructuring and privatization, because such policies would imply the dissolution of large scale farms which are the … wrote off or rescheduled much of farm debt. The government also subsequently changed its main form of financing agricultural …

embedded in an analysis that assumes equal percentage changes for both farm and consumer prices leads to a bias towards finding … percentage change in farm prices. …