Ukraine’s economy: Today’s challenges, tomorrow’s needs, and lessons from past reconstruction efforts
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Alongside the human toll of Ukraine’s battle against Russia, Ukraine’s economy has suffered significant blows. Infrastructure has been destroyed, electricity supply disrupted, and millions have been displaced. For now, and the foreseeable future, Ukraine will depend on aid from the U.S. and other allies.
On December 15, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy and the Center on the U.S. and Europe at Brookings convened a virtual event to examine the current state of Ukraine’s economy, the economic policy choices that Ukraine and its allies confront, and the options for financing and governing the recovery, reconstruction, and modernization of Ukraine. The discussion drew from a new book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (a London-based network of economists) called “Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies.”
Following the discussion with two of the authors, Yuriy Gorodnichenko of the University of California, Berkeley, and Vladyslav Rashkovan of the International Monetary Fund, a panel of experts identified lessons learned from past international efforts at reconstruction—the Marshall Plan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq—and their relevance for Ukraine.
Viewers sent questions to events@brookings.edu, on Twitter using the hashtag #UkraineEconomy or at sli.do using the code #UkraineEconomy.
Agenda
Welcome
David Wessel
Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Ukraine’s economy and issues in governing and financing international aid
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Quantedge Presidential Professor at the Department of Economics - University of California - Berkeley
Vladyslav Rashkovan
Alternative Executive Director - International Monetary Fund
David Wessel
Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
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Lessons from the past
Brian d’Silva
Retired US Government - Consultant
Harold James
Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies - Princeton University
Hideki Matsunaga
Director General, Middle East and Europe Department - JICA
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations
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