CHALLENGES AND PRACTICAL CASES OF IMPLEMENTING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY OF POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT: WORLD EXPERIENCE

Abstract

The article provides a systematic analysis of world experience regarding the challenges and practical cases of implementing the socio-economic policy of post-war development, identifying practical aspects for their implementation in the national system of post-war reconstruction. An important element of post-war development is the financing of post-war development, which by its nature exceeds the usual state budget flows: the total needs include the repair and reconstruction of housing, the restoration of energy infrastructure, the reconstruction of road and railway corridors, the restoration of social services (education, healthcare), as well as large-scale spending on sectoral reforms and compensation programs for vulnerable categories. The next direction after war development is security, security sector reform. Restoring security is a fundamental prerequisite for post-conflict reconstruction: without effective, legitimate, and accountable security forces, investments in infrastructure, the economy, and public services risk failing to create sustainable peace and will return in the form of new conflicts or criminalized zones. Another direction after war reconstruction is to restore justice, fight corruption, and rebuild trust. Restoring justice, combating corruption, and rebuilding trust are integral, multidimensional components of post-war reconstruction, without which no economic or institutional intervention can be sustainable. An important direction for post-war reconstruction is economic recovery, employment, and the private sector. Economic recovery after conflict must be multidimensional: it simultaneously requires the restoration of production and logistics, the revival of the private sector (especially small and medium-sized enterprises), the restoration of banking and financial services, as well as large-scale measures to create jobs. The next direction of post-war development is infrastructure, mine clearance, and environmental risks. The physical development of post-war infrastructure (roads, energy supply, water supply, sewage, bridges, railways, ports) is both a long-term, capital-intensive, and technically complex process, which in combat zones is complicated by the presence of mines, explosive remnants of war, and damage to industrial and municipal facilities.