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Ukraine's Other Front:
The War on Corruption
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By Tamar Jacoby
Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project
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With the war in Ukraine entering its nineteenth month, Congress is debating whether to continue providing military and humanitarian aid. Ukrainian President Zelensky is in Washington today ([link removed]) to meet with Republican leaders and urge them to stay the course, and part of the case he is making is about Ukraine’s ongoing fight to root out corruption and strengthen the rule of law. For both Ukraine and the United States, Ukraine’s war on corruption is as important as what’s happening on the battlefield.
Ukraine has struggled with a legacy of corruption since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. But it has also been fighting fiercely for more than a decade to beat back corruption and enhance the rule of law. In September alone, President Zelensky replaced the defense minister ([link removed]) and arrested a powerful oligarch ([link removed]) in an effort to combat corruption and prove to Kyiv’s Western allies that it is not squandering billions of dollars in aid.
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Today, the Progressive Policy Institute released a new report, "Ukraine's Other Front: The War on Corruption," ([link removed]) analyzing the roots of Ukrainian corruption and the nation’s long, hard fight against it. Report author Tamar Jacoby, Director of the New Ukraine Project at PPI, outlines what Ukraine needs to do and how the U.S. can help with policy that combines support and “tough love” conditionality.
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On Wednesday, Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), testified during the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade hearing on reforming the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Gresser oversaw this program from 2015 to 2021, as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics at the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
GSP is a 50-year-old set of tariff waivers for 119 low- and middle-income countries, from small Pacific and Caribbean islands to larger countries, such as Brazil and Pakistan. In exchange for waiving tariffs on about 3,600 goods, GSP imposes a list of 15 eligibility criteria ranging from market access to labor standards, resource cartels, and intellectual property rights.
In his testimony ([link removed]) , Gresser argues that Congress should reauthorize the program, which lapsed in 2020, and proposes updated improvements to better serve Congress’ top policy goals.
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Tamar Jacoby
Director of the New Ukraine Project
Tamar Jacoby is the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute's New Ukraine Project. A former journalist and author, she was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. She is the author of “Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration” and “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience.”
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