You Only Live Twice: Financial Inflows and Growth in a Westward-Facing Ukraine
Journal: National Bureau of Economic Research
Year: 2026

The monumental task of rebuilding postwar Ukraine requires early planning and identification of growth strategies.The earlier accession of Eastern European countries to the European Union and NATO offers a template that relies on massive foreign direct investment and public structural funds.This approach helps to raise incomes directly and can create a virtuous circle where capital deepening facilitates technological upgrades and repatriation of war refugees, which in turn stimulate more investm