Investment insurance for Ukraine: Enlarging the options. Summary of results

German Economic Team (GET) published a new research about investment insurance for Ukraine.

Investment insurance is a long established instrument for promoting and protecting investments, but it is limited to the cover of purely political risk. During the war and in a post-war reconstruction, Ukraine will require private investment to find the way to sustainable economic growth and green transition.

Thereby, two aspects are important both for Ukraine and its partner countries:

1. Ambitious rule of law reform agenda which should go hand in hand with EU accession.

2. External security risks, will not be fully solved even when the war ends.

Investments will be a function of both reforms and available insurance schemes addressing the new risk environment. The broad range of economic and infrastructure destructions by Russia since the 24 February 2022 demonstrate the urgent need for enlarging existing insurance schemes and the development of new ones.

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