Encouraging Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Ukraine

Abstract

Despite the fact that two ostensible economic policy priorities in Ukraine are to liberalize trade and improve the climate for foreign direct investment "FDI", successive Ukrainian governments have found it singularly difficult to pass legislation and implement policies to address these priorities. The study's primary objective was to analyze Ukraine's current environment for foreign trade and FDI and to develop policy proposals that will foster Ukraine's foreign trade and attract more FDI, especially with respect to the United States. The report describes existing barriers to trade and FDI, chief among which is corruption, and recommends a two-pronged strategy for removing the worst of these barriers: one prong focused on a few highly visible policy changes that would bring results within 100 days; the other focused on setting in motion changes in Ukrainian institutions that would reduce corruption and other impediments over a longer period.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473392

Entities

People

  • F. Stephen Larrabee
  • Keith Crane

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Central Europe
  • Cis
  • Commerce
  • Economic Policy
  • Environment
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Trade
  • Investments
  • Judiciary
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Natural Gas
  • Standards
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Economics
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies