Economic growth: how to improve the business climate and well-being of citizens?

Will the authorities be able to protect the interests of the state, not the oligarchs? Why does the shadow business in Ukraine have advantages? The speakers of the Reforms Forum: On the road to Vilnius spoke about this during the second panel discussion. Economic growth: how to improve the business climate and well-being of citizens?

Ukraine and Lithuania: 30 years difference

Registers are an important element of land reform. This issue is very poorly regulated at the legislative level in Ukraine.

“Most of the state agricultural land is not registered at all. Also, it is partially rented or sublet, so it will be very difficult to collect all the information in a single register”,- noted Vitkauskas.

Many agricultural lands are controlled by government bodies that have nothing to do with agricultural business, the expert concluded. The existence of parallels between Lithuania 30 years ago and Ukraine now, in particular with regard to land reform, was spoken by Davydas Vitkauskas, EU-Justice Project Manager. But if Lithuania sought to leave the USSR for the return of property rights to the population 30 years ago, then in Ukraine there is still a debate in this area.

The event is organiіed by the RPR Coalition in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania. The Forum is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine (EUACI – the programme is financed by the European Union and co-financed and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark), the EU Project Pravo-Justice and the International Renaissance Foundation, the USAID/ENGAGE activity implemented by Pact and «Civil Society for Enhanced Democracy and Human Rights in Ukraine» project implemented by UNDP Ukraine under financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.