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"Ukraine Must Privatize Failing State-Owned Enterprises Quickly" - new article A.Åslund

“Ukraine Must Privatize Failing State-Owned Enterprises Quickly” – new article A.Åslund

September 3, 2015

Anders Åslund, Senior Advisor to the KSE Board of Directors of KSE, adjunct professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute gives his opinion regarding resolution that was approved by Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and will cause the privatization of more than 300 state-owned enterprises in article “Ukraine Must Put Reform Agenda in Overdrive While There’s Still Time”.

“Privatization has generated controversy in every post-communist country. Ministers of privatization are usually accused of heinous crimes, regardless of how impeccably they have performed their jobs. Yet privatization is vital for all such nations, not least for Ukraine. The goal must be to limit state-owned enterprises so that the private sector dominates. The aim isn’t to maximize state revenues but to transform both the state and the economy.”

 

Full text you can read here.

 

Anders Åslund worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1994 to 2005, first as a senior associate and then from 2003 as director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Åslund earned his doctorate from Oxford University and served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics. He worked as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow.

Anders Åslund is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and an honorary professor of the Kyrgyz National University. He is co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Kyiv School of Economics and chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw.