Ukraine: Can meaningful reform come out of conflict? Bruegel Policy Contribution 2014/08, August 2014
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2014

Apart from threats to its national security and territorial integrity, Ukraine faces serious economic challenges. These result from the slow pace of economic and institutional reform in the previous two decades, the populist policies of the Yanukovych era and the consequences of the conflict with Russia. The new Ukrainian authorities have made pro-reform declarations, but these do not seem to be supported sufficiently by concrete policy measures, especially in the critical areas of fiscal, balan