No reforms stipulated by cooperation programs with international
financial institutions have been carried out in Ukraine, discrediting the
very idea of reform and a market economy. Hence, any accusations addressed
to IMF and World Bank are groundless, Gregory Jedrzejczak, representative
of World Bank in Ukraine, declared during a meeting with Anatoly Stoyan,
Chairman of the Federation of Ukrainian Trade Unions.
Mr. Jedrzejczak criticized the unjustifiably rigid, "police" powers
vested in the tax and other oversight authorities causing private business
to fold up in Ukraine, as well as the absence of prerequisites for free
competition, reports Interfax Ukraine.
"Considering the existing costs, the per capita gross domestic product
amounts to $2,000. I am not saying that you are down to the level of African
countries, but where will your state get the money for a large-scale social
support? By increasing taxes, aggravating inflation, and fresh borrowings?
All these methods are bad. The only way out is to increase production,"
Mr. Jedrzejczak believes.
He also thinks that Ukraine must put up for sale more attractive enterprises
for privatization and enhance the transparency of privatization procedures:
"Ukraine says it needs money as privatization proceeds, then it must offer
good property and sell it in the open."






