{"id":9484,"date":"2014-03-12T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2014-03-12T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:21:23","slug":"how-ukraine-can-move-forward-cato-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/how-ukraine-can-move-forward-cato-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ukraine Can Move Forward | Cato Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dalibor Rohac at the Cato Institute suggest the Ukraine should focus on getting its economy back on track:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;.to really understand where Ukraine is headed, it\u2019s important to understand the roots of the unrest that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n<p>First, the country\u2019s oligarchic elite, which ruled the country for the past two decades, cared little about the prosperity of ordinary Ukrainians. The evidence is not just in the tacky mansions of President Yanukovych and his men, but also in the fact that the average income in Ukraine is roughly one third of that in Poland even though both countries started from around the same point in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the change of government in Ukraine follows a miscalculation on the part of the Kremlin, which long considered Ukraine as its client state, dependent on imports of natural gas from Russia. Ukrainians simply lost patience after their government effectively followed instructions from Moscow and canceled the broadly popular association agreement with the EU. Now that the plan to bully Ukrainians into submission has backfired, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to leverage the situation to push claims to parts of Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine \u2014 most prominently Crimea and the port of Sevastopol.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether such territorial concessions become a reality, with an interim cabinet in place and a new presidential election scheduled for late May, it is time for Ukraine to reckon with the massive governance failure of the past twenty years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The best response to Putin&#8217;s land grab would be to turn Ukraine into an economic success story and example to its large neighbor to the East.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/commentary\/how-ukraine-can-move-forward?utm_content=buffere05cc&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>How Ukraine Can Move Forward | Cato Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalibor Rohac at the Cato Institute suggest the Ukraine should focus on getting its economy back on track: &#8230;.to really understand where Ukraine is headed, it\u2019s important to understand the roots of the unrest that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. 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