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Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformfortschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe

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Since the inception of transition Ukraine experienced an economic decline. Using indicators for the progress of economic reforms in transition countries, it becomes evident that Ukraine belongs to a very small group of eastern European transition countries that implemented very little economic reforms. The paper attempts to evaluate major macroeconomic developments. It also provides an overview over main economic reform measures that were agreed upon in the year 1995 with an international financial organization and on the extent to which these measures were implemented. Substantial shortcomings regarding this implementation together with the evaluation of Ukraine's macroeconomic performance give rise to the question as to whether conditionality of western lending is sufficiently well defined. The paper proposes simple criteria that should be fulfilled by conditionality, in particular with regard to loans provided for the purpose of balance of payments financing. It may be questionable whether western lending in the case of Ukraine satisfied such criteria. Hence, the question arises as to how it could be achieved that such criteria are met. The paper makes few suggestions. Die Rezession hielt in der Ukraine seit Beginn der Transformation an. Gleichzeitig zeigen Indikatoren für den ordnungspolitischen Transformationsfortschritt, daß die Ukraine zu der Gruppe weniger östlicher Transformationsländer gehört, die einen nur sehr geringen Fortschritt bei der Umsetzung solcher Reformen zu verzeichnen haben. Das Papier versucht, wesentliche Charakteristika der makroökonomischen Entwicklung in der Ukraine während der Transformation zu bewerten. Es gibt außerdem einen zuammmenfassenden Überblick über zentrale im Jahr 1995 mit einer internationalen Finanzorganisation vereinbarte wirtschaftspolitische Reformziele und über die tatsächlich umgesetzten Reformen. Dies macht Unzulänglichkeiten bei der Umsetzung von Reformen deutlich, die zu der Frage führen, ob die Konditionalität für westliche Kredite ausreichend gut definiert ist und möglicherweise verbessert werden kann. Das Papier schlägt einfache Anforderungen an die Konditionalität für westliche Kredite vor, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Kredite zur Zahlungsbilanzfinanzierung. Es kann bezweifelt werden, ob die westlichen Kredite diesen Kriterien im Fall der Ukraine gerecht wurden. Daraus folgt die Frage, wie sichergestellt werden könnte, daß Konditionalität Mindestanforderungen gerecht wird. Das Papier macht hierzu wenige Vorschläge.

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  • Ulrich Thießen, 2000. "Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformfortschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 192, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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