Oleksiy Kushch: Why Ukraine’s economic slowdown is a natural process

Ukraine’s expert community has long been thinking of a deserted mirage, dreaming about the times when the Ukrainian economy would grow by 5-7 percent. Although the figure of 5 percent of GDP growth appeared not by chance. If we want to reach back the level of 2013, our “speed” should be 5 percent annually. But such high dynamics requires implementation of completely different models of economic growth, while our authorities use only one model – rental, monopolized, repressive economy. Although the government is not tired of drawing rosy schemes, voicing plans to accelerate GDP growth to 4 percent.

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