Proposals for Improving and Implementing the "Strategy for Economic Development of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions until 2030"

On the basis of generalization of scientific and practical developments of economic research centers of the country and leading domestic scientists on a set of problems concerning overcoming of consequences of war in Donbass, taking into account works of authors on the given subject, proposals on improvement and implementation of the "Strategy of economic development of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts for the period up to 2030" (SED), presented by the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, are substantiated. The necessity and urgency of such a state legal act is emphasized (with the recognition of the country's economic and institutional losses due to ignoring its adoption in previous years). In order to elaborate the systemic principles of improvement and effective practical implementation of the discussed document in the context of development and implementation of medium- and long-term national plans for socio-economic development in the SED it is proposed to define optimistic, basic and pessimistic scenarios and time parameters of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions into a single legal, economical and institutional (including - informational) field of Ukraine with further identification of the basic (most probable) scenario - within 7-10 upcoming years: during 2028-2030. Among the other proposed measures of state regulatory policy are: determination of additional expected results of adoption and effective and socially responsible implementation of the SED in relation to increase of the investment attractiveness of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and formation of an effective management system for newly formed communities (with substantiated relevant Indicators 2030); departure from the generalized approach to the characterization of the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts controlled by Ukraine; taking into account and reflecting in the SED the agricultural structure and the direction of functioning of the modern regional subcomplex of Luhansk region (with proposals of improving the structure of the agro-food sector of Luhansk region), as well as the necessity to identify priority "growth points" of socio-economic development of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (with the selection of such "growth points" on the example of the Luhansk region).