Natalia Leshchenko
Economist of CASE Ukraine
nleschenko@case-ukraine.com.ua
She obtained the Master’s Degree in economic theory at EERC under National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Natalia has gained vast experience in the field of Economics and Economic Policy. In particular, she participated in and led budgetary and social research projects, as well as joint projects with such international organisations as the World Bank, ETF, USAID. The subjects of her projects include: fiscal transparency, education, financing of health care, energy sector and pension reforms, reform of enterprises support, system of social care provision, state and local budgets, preparation of Tax and Budgetary codes
Publications
Expert commentary
Budgetary policy and macroeconomics
Expert discussion on What Is Happening to National Budget of Ukraine?
On 25 May 2022, CASE Ukraine think tank held a discussion on the topic of What Is Happening to National Budget of Ukraine? The event featured deputy CASE Ukraine Economist Natalia Leshchenko, Budget Policy Expert Yulia Kasperovych and was moderated by CASE Ukraine Executive Director Dmytro Boyarchuk.
Treatment of Ukrainian Citizens Abroad Using the State Budget Funds
0.6% of health care expenditures are allocated to finance the treatment abroad programme for 450 Ukrainians. What treatment services do Ukrainian patients most often receive abroad and why?
Budgetary policy and macroeconomics
Ukrainian-Brazilian Space Program: Failure, Debt and Crime
In 2003, Ukraine and Brazil signed a major deal. The first country builds a rocket, the second one – a cosmodrome. In 2015, Brazil denounced the agreement. Not only this country is guilty of disrupting the project. Read about that in the article written by Natalia Leshchenko, CASE Ukraine`s economist.
Budgetary policy and macroeconomics
Seven Awkward Questions about the Rapid Minimum Wage Increase
The IMF does not like surprises. And the 2016 budget was approved without any rapid social standards changing. What will be the reaction of the Fund? This was the subject of CASE Ukraine`s economist Natalia Leshchenko column in an ‘Ekonomichna Pravda’ media outlet.
Budgetary policy and macroeconomics
What to expect in the State budget 2017
Ukrainian government should submit the draft State budget 2017 to the Parliament soon.
Budgetary policy and macroeconomics
Natalya Leshchenko: Ukraine’s new financial regulations will have “serious economic risks.”
In an exclusive column for RBC Ukraine, economic analyst Natalya Leshchenko warns of the potentially harmful economic repercussions of bill 4101a, which is to be introduced this month by the Ukrainian parliament.
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