The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine: Slow Starts, False Starts, and a Last Chance?

ISBN-13: 9781137576897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 353 str.

Dr Oleh Havrylyshyn

Opis

Radically revising the traditional argument that reforms were delayed to allow nation building, this book contends that it was due more to the interests of the non-lustrated elite, who needed time to become the new capitalists.

Spis treści

Part I  Introduction

1  Overview of Economy and Aims of Book

2  Nature of Economy Before Independence

 

Part II   Post Independence Economic Reforms and Performance

3   Main Trends Over 25 years: Delayed Reforms Lead to Poor Performance

4   Economic Reforms and Performance Under Kravchuk (1991-1994)

5   Economic Reforms and Performance Under Kuchma I(1994-1998)                                  and Kuchma II  (1998-2004)

6  Economic Reforms and Performance Under Yushxhenko  (2004-2009)

7  Economic Reforms and Performance Under Yanukovich (2010-2014)

8  Economic Reforms and Performance Under Poroshenko  (2014-2016)

 

Part  III  The Key Political-Economy Challenges Since Independence

 9  The Costs of Delaying Economic Reforms

10 The Formation and Role of Oligarchs: Step Towards the Market or a Barrier to                           Liberalization?

11  Economic Dependence on Russia

12  Pervasive Corruption: the Elusive “Golden Fleece”

13  EU Membership: the Quest for the Holy Grail

 

 

 

Part  V  Summary and Conclusions

14  The Outcome: Capitalism for the Few and Low Growth

15  Prospects for  Real Reforms after the EuroMaidan 

O autorze

Oleh Havrylyshyn lectures at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada, and the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Until 2015, he was advisor to senior officials in the Ukrainian Government. He has served as Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Finance, and was a senior official at the Board of Directors and Management of the IMF.

Blurb

Marking the 25th anniversary of Ukraine as a sovereign nation, this book traces its economic transformation since 1991. Post-communist transition has been a highlight of recent history, and Ukraine stands out as one of its most interesting and puzzling cases. Havrylyshyn offers the first comprehensive treatise on the entire period, providing a thorough description of the slow evolution of economic reforms, exploring how and why performance in this regard fell far behind the leaders in transition. Testing several conventional hypotheses, the author argues that while Russian imperialism may form part of the explanation, the self-serving interests of domestic elites and new oligarchs may be even more important. Radically revising the traditional argument that reforms were delayed to allow nation building, this book contends that it was due more to the interests of the non-lustrated elite, who needed time to become the new capitalists.