ABSTRACT
This chapter is very much a practitioner’s ‘view from the field’, based on detailed work in Ukraine. As such it tries to deal with some very concrete, practical issues not normally covered or even encountered in academic studies of transition economies. Partly as a result of this, it side-steps a number of economic issues and principles that a more ‘remote’ economist would wish to see taken into account. It provides, in the editors’ view, some fascinating insights into the evolution of economic policy in transition economies where the understanding of the market economy has still not penetrated very deeply.
