Yet, given the war in the eastern Donbas region, the shattering of so much of our economy, and the precarious nature of our government’s finances, the International Monetary Fund and others are clearly asking too much of Ukrainians. The idea that Ukraine can embrace the economic “shock therapy” that Poland pursued a quarter-century ago is the type of cookie-cutter policymaking that resulted in the 2008 global financial crisis.
但鉴于顿巴斯东部战争、如此大规模的经济破坏和政府财政的岌岌可危，国际货币基金组织和其他人所提的要求乌克兰民众显然无法满足。恰恰是认为乌克兰可以像二十五年前的波兰那样接受经济“休克疗法”这类的决策导致了2008年的全球经济危机。