My 5-point Plan for Ukraine’s economic recovery:
1) Equipping Ukraine with cross-ministerial planning capacity with international planners, project-managers, and engineers to support its civil servants to provide strategic guidance and connective tissue to the international donor community and private sector.
2) Pushing the accelerator button -- together with World Bank, EIB and others -- to broaden the bench of shovel ready projects from a dozen to hundreds.
3) Deepening the reform agenda and attacking corruption, particularly in areas like customs that will put money in Ukrainian national coffers and create a more trustworthy environment for investors.
4) Marshalling capital. This means money, insurance, banking and equity. Particularly it means expediting bond issuance on the collateralized interest from Russian sovereign assets.
5) Getting Ukraine’s refugees, internally displaced people and veterans home, trained and back to work.
It also means making the G7+ group for Ukraine recovery the “Economic Ramstein Format” it was meant to be. Taken together, these are the elements to start Ukraine’s economic recovery NOW.
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