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Originally Posted by iheartthed
A large skilled population with good ties to the West.
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Do you have numbers about it? What are those ties of the West? What are those skills? A 1980's Soviet college diploma?
Countries like Brazil or Argentina are much more similar, be their legislation, political organization, cultural traits and actual economic ties and they're not booming.
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
It was already developing a tech economy before the Russia invasion. It has a lot of potential. It will also become a major defense manufacturer after this is over. It'll likely become something like Israel to ensure its future sovereignty. The rebuilding alone will cause an economic boom.
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Russia is a massive weapon exporter, 2nd to the US only and it's nowhere near to be a developed economy.
"Tech economy"? Every single place these days claims to be "tech". I just googled it and apparently there are 300,000 "tech companies" in Brazil. 150,000 new jobs opened every year and only 60,000 new professionais graduating/year to meet demand. Watch out Silicon Valley! Brazil is the new thing...
Ukraine has been by far the poorest country in Europe for the past 30 years. Life expectancy there is at African levels. Its GDP is 1/3 smaller than the similar sized Colombia. No one in the US cared about it. Than this war came, they got frontpages and suddenly they've became the lost eden.
And even if we pray hard and Ukraine go through a good economy phase, that won't solve its demographics issues. Their natural growth is approaching 500,000 negative.
Do you have any idea where Ukraine will find
500,000 immigrants/year? Will they be the new Canada?