How Ineffective Law Enforcement Undermines the Investment Climate

The Centre for Economic Strategy and colleagues from the RRR4U consortium invite you to join the presentation of the monthly Monitoring implementation of the IMF program and EU assistance.

This month’s special topic: “How Ineffective Law Enforcement Undermines the Investment Climate“.

Despite individual steps toward reforming the law enforcement system, businesses continue to face issues that undermine investor confidence: protracted investigations, pressure from law enforcement, raids, disruptions to operations, and unpredictable enforcement.

High-profile cases involving Ukrainian companies demonstrate that the lack of clear rules, proper institutional guarantees, and the incomplete reform of agencies investigating economic crimes remain among the key barriers to private investment and the country’s economic recovery.

During the event, we will examine the current state of reforms at the Bureau of Economic Security (BES) and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), analyze how businesses assess the work of law enforcement agencies, and discuss how these issues impact Ukraine’s investment climate.

The event will take place on July 31 at 16:00 (Kyiv time) in Kyiv with a live stream. Registration is available by the link.

Event agenda:

16:00 – 16:10 Status of the Ukraine Facility program implementation, Alona Korohod, Project Expert at DiXi Group.

16:10 – 16:20 Status of Ukraine’s IMF program implementation, Viacheslav Kurylo, Senior Policy and Data Analyst at IAA.

16:20 – 16:30 Special Topic, Maksym Samoiluk, Senior Economist at the Centre for Economic Strategy.

16:30 – 17:30 Panel discussion with representatives of government authorities and the civil society sector:

• Yuliia Andrusiv, Deputy Business Ombudsman of Ukraine;
• Anastasiia Radina, Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy;
• Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s Trade Representative to the EU (online);
• Yaroslav Zhelezniak, Member of Parliament, First Deputy Chair of the Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.

Moderator: Oleksandra Betliy, Lead Research Fellow at IER.

Registration

The event is held with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.

RRR4U (Resilience, Reconstruction and Relief for Ukraine) is a consortium of four Ukrainian civil society organizations: the Centre for Economic Strategy, the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, the Institute for Analytics and Advocacy, and DiXi Group.

RRR4U releases a monthly monitoring report on Ukraine’s fulfillment of conditions under key international financing programs with the IMF and the EU. Previous issues are available on the consortium’s website.