«Marshall plan for Ukraine»: rationale for a systemic approach to development and proposals for institutional support

Abstract

The second stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war significantly actualizes the need to develop a state program (or socio-economic project) aimed at institutional, organizational, managerial and methodological support for the policy of eliminating losses and restoring Ukraine. World practice has experience in the development and effective implementation of similar programs, especially on the example of the recovery of Europe and Japan after World War II. The basis for the implementation of such a policy was the «Marshall Plan». It is possible to lay it down as a basis for the development and implementation of the recovery policy of Ukraine. Ukraine should be primarily interested in its development; the world community sent clear messages regarding the expediency of developing the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine» by analogy with the recovery policy of countries after World War II. At the international conference in Lugano, Switzerland, in July 2022, the country's government presented the «Ukraine Recovery Plan», the main provisions of which were approved. At the same time, the international community expressed well-founded comments and expressed a desire for revision. The article considers aspects of the evolution of the approach to the development of the «Marshall Plan» and its defining provisions, which are appropriate to use as a theoretical and methodological basis for the development of the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine». In order to form a systematic approach to the development of such a program, a proposal for the development of a SWOT analysis of the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine» has been put forward. In the context of the practical implementation of such a proposal, its internal strengths and weaknesses, external favorable and threatening factors have been identified. This became the basis of the initial proposals put forward, aimed at ensuring the institutional infrastructure support of the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine»: the need to develop a legislative act that must be adopted in order to legally ensure the implementation of the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine»; creation of a separate state body of executive power, which should be responsible for the practical implementation of the recovery policy; creation of a corresponding state bank; determination of priority measures for organizational and methodological support for the development of the «Marshall Plan for Ukraine».