Ukraine’s international reputation is not to be envied. Despite years of strong budget discipline, three years of growth now averaging 3 percent, reforms that have resulted in a reduction in corruption flows amounting to 6 percent of GDP, and the stymying of Russia’s advance in eastern Ukraine in part through the building of a strong military, most people still see the country as a failing state in thrall to a small group of kleptocratic oligarchs.In truth, the picture is far more complicated, and the battle over Ukraine’s future is too important to be understood in such simplistic terms.To be sure, …read more
Source: The American Interest
