National Days & Anniversaries
Holodomor Remembrance Day, 28 November 2020
A remembrance message for a year in which people could not gather, and what a candle in a window does instead.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2020
A language day greeting in a year when the dictation had to be written at kitchen tables.
Politics & Governance
The tax service, and the end of the informal visit
The most important change in Ukrainian tax administration is that fewer inspectors come through the door, and the ones who do were selected by a system.
Society & Regions
The social protection system
The shift from subsidising everybody's utility bill to paying targeted support to households that need it is one of the more consequential reforms, and one of…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2020
A recovery beginning as restrictions eased, a harvest completed normally, and a divergence between the sectors the pandemic damaged and those it accelerated that turned out…
Society & Regions
The housing stock and who owns it
Ukraine has one of the highest home ownership rates in Europe and one of the weakest housing markets. Both facts have the same cause.
Agriculture & Food
The agrarian receipt: a small instrument that worked
A financing tool aimed at farms too big for a microloan and too small for a bank was introduced as a pilot and quietly became normal.
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2020
A first-of-September greeting for the strangest school opening I have seen here.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2020: a quiet anniversary and a law that took nineteen years
No parade, restricted gatherings and a pandemic recession. Also: parliament finally lifted the farmland moratorium in March, which will matter longer than anything else that happened…
Economy & Macro
The pension question, honestly stated
The arithmetic of a pay-as-you-go pension system with a falling contributor base has only three solutions, and all of them are unpopular.
Energy & Infrastructure
The road building programme, from a supplier chair
A very large road programme ran for several years. Seen from the supply side, what mattered was contracting practice, payment terms and whether the tender was…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2020
A banking law adopted in May protected the 2015–2016 clean-up from reversal, and a new IMF programme followed in June. The sequence shows what conditionality can…
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
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Economy & Macro
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Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
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Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
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The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
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Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Folklore & Esoterica
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The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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