Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It

Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
ISBN-10
0881327026
ISBN-13
9780881327021
Series
Ukraine
Category
Political Science
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2015-04-17
Publisher
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Author
Anders Aslund

Description

Ukraine has been wracked by a year of unprecedented political, economic, and military turmoil. Russian military aggression in the east and a legacy of destructive policies and corruption have created an imminent existential crisis for this young democracy. Yet Ukraine also has a great opportunity to break out of economic underperformance. In this study, Anders Åslund, one of the world's leading experts on Ukraine, traces Ukraine's evolution as a market economy starting with the fall of communism and examines the economic impact of its recent difficulties. Åslund argues that Ukraine must undertake sweeping political, economic, social, and government reforms to achieve prosperity and independence. For its part, the West must abandon its hesitant approach and provide broad economic assistance to help Ukraine transform itself.

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