Lack of rule of law, unpaid debts to solar and wind investors, and last year’s purge of internationally-known reformers from government make for bleak prospects for inbound investment this year

Lack of rule of law, unpaid debts to solar and wind investors, and last year’s purge of internationally-known reformers from government make for bleak prospects for inbound investment this year, Anders Aslund predicts in an Atlantic Council Ukraine blog: “What is Ukraine’s Economic Outlook for 2021?” “Looking ahead, Ukraine’s worst economic problem remains the absence of property rights, which continues to hinder investment of any kind,” the Swedish-American economist writes from Washington. “Without judicial reform or an increase in investment, there is little reason to expect any economic growth beyond the gains arising from the anticipated post-coronavirus rebound.”