Pay to play?

Pay to play? The Rada may tie a vote to create a farmland market to IMF approval of financial aid, a ruling party ‘source’ tells Ekonomichna Pravda online newspaper. Many economists believe a farmland market would inject billions of dollars of investment into rural Ukraine, raising yields and living conditions. Many politicians are not convinced. The farmland market bill that is to emerge in two weeks in the Rada is expected to ban foreigners from buying land and to limit private holdings to 10,000 hectares.