Task Force Meeting
The Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research took part in a meeting of the Regional Development and Interbudgetary Relations Reform task force of the Committee on Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine, which was held at the Ministry of Finance on 25 May 2012.
The meeting focused on State debt management, improving local borrowing procedures, implementing a system of risk management related to local debt and the provision of local guarantees.
In addition, the participants discussed the status of regulatory support for the mechanism of implementing regional development projects via the State Regional Development Fund, as well as proposals regarding the establishment of social standards in the areas of healthcare, culture, sport and youth, family and children.
Special focus was made on the progress in realizing the 2012 National Action Plan for implementing the "Prosperous Society, Competitive Economy, Efficient State" Program of Economic Reforms for the years 2010-2014.