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September 08, 2011
Reforms in Ukraine: Protecting Ukraine's Consumers
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Consumer protection is an integral part of human rights. Independent Ukraine’s history of regulation and practice in this area dates back to 1991, when a framework law was introduced. This system emerged from the soviet one, based on detailed technical quality standards that ensured the homogeneity of products all across the USSR while severely restricting variety and quantity. However, such standards don’t work in an open market economy: instead of ensuring consumer safety, they ensure bureaucratic pressure on business.
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September 07, 2011
Reforms in Ukraine: Regional Integration
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Ordinary Ukrainians and most of the country’s political forces recognize that Ukraine belongs to Europe and deserves to become a full-fledged member of the European Union one day. Ukrainian voters and their Government also favor a mutually beneficial, friendly, stable and predictable strategic partnership with Russia. These two vectors are sometimes seen as contradictory, but the task of the country’s Government and civil society is to make them complementary in a way that will allow Ukraine and the regions to which it belongs to benefit from both.
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August 23, 2011
On 20 Years of Independence: Vira Nanivska, ICPS director, interviewed in Den
| The radical change in economic and political systems that took place in the early 1990s, the institution of private property and the dismantling of the Communist Party’s monopoly, to this day, are not supported by the institutions necessary in a democratic, market-oriented government. By maintaining immunity for the ruins of the soviet state machine and centralized, command principles of law, we hung onto the rule of power without establishing the rule of law. |
August 08, 2011
Reforming Labor Relations
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The main problem with labor in Ukraine is the incompatibility between existing regulations and their institutional support, which is entirely soviet in essence and will never ensure real relations between workers and employers that are standard for democratic countries with market economies.
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August 01, 2011
Education Reform: Increasing employability
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Ukraine has every possibility to improve the quality of education and to ensure that it is connected to the labor market. All stakeholders agree that reform is very much needed. However, the means for undertaking such reforms and the depth of reform needed are seen very differently.
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ICPS News
The Second Brainstorming Session Under The “Setting Up A Public Land Reform Platform In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast” Project Took Place In The City Of Dnipropetrovsk ICPS RECOMMENDS: Announcement from The Goerdeler-Kolleg for Good Governance The World in 2012. ICPS contributes to special Ukrainian version of The Economist’s annual report prepared by Ukrainian Week Ukraine & Reforms in 2011: An assessment by ICPS analysts Season's greetings from ICPS!
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