{"id":10932,"date":"2014-09-20T06:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2014-09-20T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:02:16","slug":"what-ukraine-needs-most-now-evidence-from-slovakia-reforms-voxukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/20\/what-ukraine-needs-most-now-evidence-from-slovakia-reforms-voxukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ukraine needs most now &#8211; Evidence from Slovakia Reforms | VoxUkraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From  Ivan Miklo\u0161 (former Minister of Finance and deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Twenty-five years ago Slovakia produced antiquated Soviet tanks and another heavy military equipment but not one car. Today we are the number one producer of cars in the whole world, per capita. The most important reason for that success is reforms. Let me illustrate this by comparing convergence success of the Visegrad countries from 2004 until 2008. Over those four years, GDP per capita in PPP in comparison with the EU average improved in Hungary by 1%, Czech Republic by 3%, Poland by 5% and Slovakia by 16%. These were the first four years of EU membership for all of these countries, therefore the big difference among their convergence progress has to have had different reasons. This reason is reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia during 2003 prepared, and from the beginning of 2004 implemented, a very bold and complex package of deep structural reforms. In 2004 Slovakia was named the most reformist country globally by the World Bank. I am not writing this in order to praise my country or myself. I am writing this because of two main reasons. Firstly, it shows that reforms work. It shows that if country is able to implement a deep and comprehensive package of reforms it will bring relatively quick results.  Secondly, I think that our experience shows Ukraine now has a real chance to achieve similar success and progress if necessary reforms are implemented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/voxukraine.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/09\/imiklos.html#more'>VoxUkraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ivan Miklo\u0161 (former Minister of Finance and deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic): &#8230;Twenty-five years ago Slovakia produced antiquated Soviet tanks and another heavy military equipment but not one car. Today we are the number one producer of cars in the whole world, per capita. 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