“The strategy is full of truisms and is simply unviable. It offers nothing new and fails to show the road to prosperity promised by its title,” the paper noted.
Industrial production in Ukraine has been contracting the past three years and GDP has dropped a hefty 17.6 percent since January.
In its desperate attempts to fill the state coffers the government keeps devaluating the hryvnia.
Having no faith in the government’s ability to improve the situation the business community is reverting to the tried and true methods of tax evasion and is inventing ever new ways of hiding their earnings.
“The businessmen, who only recently hoped that the government would finally start implementing its much-promised reforms, no longer believe they will ever come. And the more populist and empty promises the government makes, the less faith people have in a better future for this country,” the newspaper wrote in collusion.
