It’s a paradox, but under the “criminal” government more investments went to Ukraine
Economists, based on the experience of Ukrainian independence, do not believe that in a crisis Ukraine will be able to receive billions from the large-scale privatization announced by the current Cabinet of Ministers.
This pattern was pointed out during a round table in Kyiv by Ukrainian economist Andrei Blinov, head of the “Successful Country” project, who announced statistics on privatization revenues over the years of independence.
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“They always said that we would like money when we have a crisis,” the expert emphasized. – They talked a lot about income from privatization in the second half of the 90s, when economic growth was trying to begin, but it never began. They talked about this a lot in 2009, when we had a crisis, and they talk about it a lot now. And the largest sales volumes were made in other years: 2001–2002, 2005 and 2011–2012. All these years have been local peaks of economic growth. And if someone promises you right now that they will sell you a billion hryvnia or more, remember this person and ask him in a year.”
Let us recall that the Ukrainian government announced that it intends to receive about 17 billion hryvnia from the sale of 342 state facilities.
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