The recovery conference in Lugano set out principles for how Ukraine's reconstruction should be conducted. They are worth reading because they answer the wrong-donor problem in…
A record harvest, favourable terms of trade, a land market opened after twenty years, and an energy price shock — closing with a risk premium that…
A January day about lands held together, marked as it always is.
A record export year closing against rising security risk premia. Financial markets priced the risk from November onward while the real economy continued operating normally.
A Christmas greeting on an ordinary January evening, with the tables as full as they had been for years.
A New Year greeting written on the first of January 2022, which reads differently now than it did then.
A greeting for a St Nicholas morning in the last ordinary December before everything else.
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
A language day greeting, and a note on the people who translate in the other direction.
A Ukrainian company can bid for public contracts in the European Union, and European companies can bid here. The reciprocity is the point and it is…
Customs has been reformed more often than almost any other Ukrainian institution, which tells you both how important it is and how hard it has been.
A company earning in hryvnia and owing in euros has a problem that arithmetic alone will not solve. The available tools are limited and worth knowing…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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