11:26 08.02.2016

Abromavicius achieves partial success, has no conceptual strategy for economic policy

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Abromavicius achieves partial success, has no conceptual strategy for economic policy

Ukrainian political experts have said that Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Aivaras Abromavicius has achieved partial success, but there is no strategy for the economic policy and global reforms have not been finished.

"His work was not a failure, and this is not bad for our situation. We could speak about electronic procurement, the ProZorro system. There were some movements to have a transparent European ministry. Yes, there are no impressive and huge achievements," Director of Institute for Global Strategies Vadym Karasiov said at a pc at Interfax-Ukraine on February 5.

The expert said that the minister did not have the economic policy.

"I've studies the program drawn up by Abromavicius and his assistants…. The principles of the economy: freedom, competition, demonopolization, but these are words. The economic policy is preferences, priorities, subsidies and the antimonopoly policy," he said.

Karasiov said that the economic policy is absent in Ukraine as a kind. It exists in the United States, Britain, France and Germany. If it was when Yanukovych [was the president], it was the industrial policy named after the mining and metal complex. I believe that Ukraine has not lost the remainders of the industrial potential and Ukraine should have the national capital, not only western or eastern," the political expert said.

President of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies Vadym Fesenko said that Abromavicius is not a "champion" among reformers in the government, but the ministry made a lot and a young promising and strong team was formed there.

"The reform of the public procurement system that has become more transparent. In the trade policy, Deputy Minister Natalia Mykolska that promotes and settles a lot of problems linked to the start of the operation of the free trade zone with the EU works very well. Some problems are being settled, and a foundation is laid for some of them," he said.

Fesenko also pointed at settling the problems of trade relations on the post-Soviet area.

"The route bypassing Russia, sanctions against Russia, the trade policy in relations with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – these are things run by the ministry," he said.

He said that the deregulation reform that is the main reform for the ministry only starts.

"I heard that the president demanded to conduct it in a year from Abromavicius, but he planned to carry out it in three years. The slow deregulation reform is one of the complaints, as well as the absence of the conceptual position how we can restore the economic growth," he said.

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