Austrian Think Tank Identifies Need for Improvements to Ukraine's Reconstruction Plan

PeopleOther ♦ Published: November 8, 2022; 20:06 ♦ (Vindobona)

Together with the GROWFORD Institute in Kyiv, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies has investigated how the Ukrainian government's reconstruction plan, presented in July, should be evaluated. How much will Ukraine's reconstruction cost and where will the money come from?

Ukraine needs to be rebuilt after the war, but how are the reconstruction plans evaluated? / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons, Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0

Ukraine has already been scarred by war with Russian separatists in the east of the country since 2014, and this has already had far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. But since the great Russian attack on Ukraine, the country has been at the mercy of all-out war.

The country has been embroiled in fierce fighting that has driven infrastructure, industry, and the economy into…