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Yuriy Dzhygyr

Yuriy Dzhygyr (Ukrainian: Юрій Джигир, born 19 November 1975) is a public economist and Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Finance in the government of Oleksiy Honcharuk.

Yuriy Dzhygyr
Юрій Джигир
Deputy Minister of Finance (Ukraine)
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 July 2018
Personal details
Born (1975-11-19) 19 November 1975 (age 48)
Political partyIndependent
EducationNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University

Education

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Dzhygyr graduated from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1999, with a double-major BA degree in Economics and Political Science.

He continued studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA, to receive an MA degree in economics, specializing in Public Finance, in 2001.[1]

Career

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Development consulting

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During 2001–2018, Dzhygyr was engaged in provision of technical advice to governments in Ukraine, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific regions on developing and implementing budget reforms and promoting sound budgeting practices at national and sub-national levels. He worked as an individual expert and as a director of a commercial consultancy, FISCO id, which he set up in 2006.[2]

Within one of the projects, Dzhygyr co-authored a research initiative to understand the failures in the governance and financing of Ukraine's healthcare system [3] This work was later used to develop Ukraine's health financing reform and to design global indicators of healthcare system governance,.[4][5]

Public service and contribution to post-Maidan reforms

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After the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Dzhygyr spent four years working as a non-staff adviser to Ukraine's new government, concentrating on health financing and fiscal decentralization.[6] He was in the core team designing the 2017 health financing reform,[7] calling to replace the Post-Soviet centralized and hierarchical Semashko-type system with a tax-based funding model involving a national level single-payer,.[8][9][10][11]

In early 2018, Dzhygyr has proposed a new approach to financing national public broadcasting in Ukraine. He suggested funding Ukraine's National Public Broadcasting Company, NPBC by earmarking 50% of the rent charged by the state for the use of radio frequency resource. This was proposed as a measure to make NPBC funding more transparent and to protect it from political influencing.[12] This approach was supported by the supervisory board of the NPBC as “one of the most reliable options” and “in line with the Council of Europe recommendations” [13] and was approved by the Board as its formal proposal for reform on 5 April 2018.[14] The idea was also supported by the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform (a joint EU-Ukraine civil society organization set up as a requirement of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement).[15] However, as of August 2019, it remained in consideration by the Government and was not yet introduced in practice,[16][17]

On 26 July 2018, Dzhygyr was appointed as Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Finance to cover public spending in social and humanitarian sectors.[18] In this office, Dzhygyr continued to oversee healthcare financing as well as public spending on social protection, education, science, culture and sports.

One of the key reforms during Dzhygyr's time in office was the on-going transformation of Ukraine's program of subsidies on housing and utilities payments for poor households, the country's key social assistance scheme. The reform entailed “monetization” of subsidies, whereby the recipients would be granted in cash instead of payment discounts,.[19][20][21][22] He was also working on the a wide-scale intervention to verify the databases of subsidy recipients to identify fraud and mistakes [23] - a measure which proved highly unpopular,[24][25][26][27] but led to considerable budget savings.[28]

As a deputy Minister of Finance, Dzhygyr was also promoting introduction of a new funding mechanism for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). This involved replacing line-item funding of a pre-selected range of research facilities with a competitive grant scheme through a newly established National Research Fund.[29]

After the change of Government in Ukraine in 2019, Dzhygyr was re-appointed at his post of the Deputy Minister of Finance.[30]

References

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  1. ^ "Повідомлення на вебсайті Міністерства фінансів України". Міністерство фінансів України (in Ukrainian).
  2. ^ "FISCO id". fisco-id.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  3. ^ Belli, Paolo; Dzhygyr, Yuriy; Maynzyuk, Kateryna (2015). How is it working? A new approach to measure governance in the health system in Ukraine. The World Bank. ISBN 9786177239078..
  4. ^ World Bank Group (2017). World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law. World Bank Publications. ISBN 9781464809514.
  5. ^ Salloch, Sabine; Sandow, Verena; Schildmann, Jan; Vollmann, Jochen (2016). Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare: Transition and Challenges. Routledge. ISBN 9781317141310.
  6. ^ Свобода, Радіо (2018-07-27). "Новими заступниками міністра фінансів стали Джигир та Верланов". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  7. ^ "Ми прискорюємо темп медичної реформи» — заступник міністра охорони здоров'я Павло Ковтонюк" (in Ukrainian). Hromadske.ua. 2018-08-01.
  8. ^ "Радник міністра Юрій Джигир у Франківську розповів, чого очікувати людям від медреформи" (in Ukrainian). Репортер. 2017-10-20.
  9. ^ "Чем грозит откладывание медицинской реформы, – мнение эксперта" (in Russian). 24tv.ua. 2017-06-22.
  10. ^ "Юрій Джигир: Невідкладна медична реформа для України" (in Ukrainian). Медіа-платформа Ukrainian Future Initiative/Українська ініціатива майбутнього. 2018-12-11.
  11. ^ "Децентралізація по-медичному: зміна системи охорони здоров'я України" (in Ukrainian). Лабораторія законодавчих ініціатив. 2017-08-02.
  12. ^ "Оптимальним джерелом доходів НСТУ є радіочастотна рента — Юрій Джигир" (in Ukrainian). STV.detector.media. 2018-03-21.
  13. ^ "Українські та міжнародні експерти обговорили моделі фінансування суспільного мовника" (in Ukrainian). UA Суспільне мовлення. 2018-03-01.
  14. ^ "Рада Європи презентує нову модель фінансування НСТУ" (in Ukrainian). Інститут масової інформації. 2019-04-10.
  15. ^ "Платформа громадянського суспільства асоціації Україна-ЄС закликає Уряд і Парламент запровадити більш захищену модель фінансування НСТУ" (in Ukrainian). Лабораторія демократичних трансформацій. 2019-04-05.
  16. ^ "Минфин и НОТУ обсудили финансирование "суспільного"" (in Russian). Деловая столица. 2019-03-15.
  17. ^ "Фінансування НСТУ буде передбачено в проекті Бюджетної декларації на 2020-2022 роки – Мінфін" (in Ukrainian). Interfax Україна. 2019-03-15.
  18. ^ "Юрій Джигир призначений заступником Міністра фінансів". www.minfin.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  19. ^ "Government starts monetization of subsidies". Government Portal - Official website of the Government of Ukraine. 2018-12-27.
  20. ^ "Основна стратегічна мета реформи — монетизація — Мінфін" (in Ukrainian). ZN.ua. 2018-09-22.
  21. ^ "Живими грошима: На якому етапі перебуває монетизація субсидій, і чого чекати споживачам наступного року" (in Ukrainian). ZN.ua. 2018-09-22.
  22. ^ "Круглий стіл "Житлові субсидії: на шляху до монетизації"" (in Ukrainian). Лабораторія законодавчих ініціатив. 2018-09-14.
  23. ^ Ярослав Вінокуров (2019-01-16). "Уряд підтримав законопроект про перевірку отримувачів субсидій" (in Ukrainian). Hromadske.ua.
  24. ^ "Пенсіонери залишаться без виплат: кому готуватися до удару" (in Ukrainian). Politeka.net. 2019-02-11.
  25. ^ "Багатьох українців можуть позбавити виплат" (in Ukrainian). Під прицілом. 2019-02-17.
  26. ^ "Влада вигадала хитрий спосіб відбирати пенсії і виплати" (in Ukrainian). Розумна сила. 2019-02-12.
  27. ^ "Ще один "подарунок" від влади – у певної категорії громадян забиратимуть пенсії" (in Ukrainian). Галичина - galychyna.if.ua. 2019-02-15.
  28. ^ "Мінфін: перевірка отримувачів соцвиплат за рік заощадила 6 мільярдів" (in Ukrainian). UNIAN. 2019-03-15.
  29. ^ "Минфин планирует по-новому финансировать украинскую науку" (in Russian). E-News.com.ua. 2019-04-02.
  30. ^ "Заступники міністра фінансів Гелетій, Джигир і Шкураков зберегли посади" (in Ukrainian). 2019-09-04.
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