In 1991 Ukraine and Poland weren’t all that different in their economic performance.A quarter century later, the gap between both countries has become enormous -Ukraine’s per capita GDP now is only a third of what it is in neighboring Poland.The reason is that Poland, after 1990, managed to implement fundamental legal and constitutional reforms which created the conditions for a competitive and dynamic market economy. In contrast, under the control of the oligarchs, all Ukrainian governments failed to institute a reform of the economy as well as of the state at large. Besides "de-oligarchisation", energy saving is another crucial area of reform in Ukraine. If Ukraine could achieve a level of energy efficiency comparable to the EU average, the country would be self-sufficient in gas. Read more at http://www.theglobalist.com/
